“A tip for reading Bill Branyon’s letters: Ignore all modifiers — mostly the adjectives, although the adverbs and adverbial phrases are also colorfully irrelevant.”
Tag: Letters to the Editor
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Letter: Xpress fills the local Opinion void
“In those precious column inches, you are a genuine local newspaper.”
Letter: More opinion content, please
“I miss things that are suddenly no longer appearing in the Citizen Times (after 16 years, I am thinking of surrendering my subscription) and wish your paper would publish more editorials and letters to the editor.”
Letter: Xpress should broaden letters’ focus
“I would encourage you to expand it to cover national and international issues so that writers of letters to the editor have more topics they can speak to, and your readers will be exposed to more food for thought.”
Letter: Print and radio can let your voice be heard
“Letters to the editor are a great outlet to influence public discourse and dialogue, and being a caller to radio stations adds your voice to that dialogue in a public way.”
Letter: Thumbs-up for attention to local issues
“Substantial opinion letters such as those in your June 23 issue are why I’ll turn first to the Xpress in Asheville or Bill Moss’ Lightning in Hendersonville for thoughtful attention to local issues.”
Letter: The value of letters to the editor
“For people who write editorial letters, it allows them to give their voice to local issues and what is the local community’s wisest course of action.”
Last call for election letters
For the best shot at seeing your letter make Xpress’ print issue before the Nov. 6 election, please send your missive by 5 p.m. Oct. 24 to letters@mountainx.com.
Letter writer: Civility solution is already available
“I must confess, however, that I’ve never felt a letters or comments section should be regarded as the journalistic equivalent of a Speakers’ Corner in Hyde Park; if people want to voice their opinions at will, they can start their own newspaper or blog.”