Sound Bite World
The recent presidential decisions to extended the tour of duty length and recall to the battlefield with only one year between tours of duty mad me so angry I wrote my first letter to the editor. It was a concise one page typed written essay. You remember those from high school. I sent it in via fax. The next morning I noticed the “Tips for publication of letters to the editor”. The two hundred word limit sent mine crashing to the ground under the burden of its’ 594 words. I edited the essay, losing much of its’ needed background information and content but alas it was still 335 words long. Since it was still more than fifty percent over the word limit I didn’t bother to resubmit it.
Does the Tribune feel its’ readership is incapable of maintaining their attention span for longer than thirty seconds? Is it the comprehension skills or intellectual abilities of their readers the editors question? Or is it the sound bite world we’ve become that leaves us, the United States of America with the mess of Iraq?
Including title, name and address 198 words.
Frank Pedroza
West Valley City, Utah
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