Letters to the Editor
EconCCX
Published Letters: 48 Editor's Choice: 6
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Correction needed
[Read the article: Talkin' bout my generation]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The "greater generation" may have elected Nixon, Reagan and the Bushes, but it never elected, and in fact rejected, Gerald Ford.
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Suggestion
[Read the article: What's lost when women aren't on the Op-Ed page?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The author should familiarize herself with how one sets about writing an Op-Ed for The New York Times. It's no great mystery: you write your piece at appropriate length and submit it by email. Let's not give Broadsheet readers the impression that The Times is commissioning men rather than women to produce these pieces. Op-Ed writers commission themselves.
If you believe that a piece by a woman has been rejected in favor of an inferior piece by a man, I'm confident Broadsheet or Table Talk will help you share the piece and the injustice.
By all means fight any bias, but please show you've attempted to work within The Times's system, as men do.
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Which is it?
[Read the article: Couric-crazy]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Quite right, Drudge's story is understated. So is there any special reason the Broadsheet piece speaks of a "frenzy" and "circus" and describes media folk as "ready to soil themselves with excitement?" Are we facetiously implying that media are in fact downplaying the significance of Ms. Couric's likely ascension to the anchor chair? Trust, they're saving the milestone analysis for when there's, you know, a story to write.
For what it's worth, Drudge's prominent lead link and image concern the complaints against and by Rep. Cynthia McKinney after her run-in with Capitol Police. There's your media circus. Looking forward to Broadsheet's take.
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Please chat with a copy editor about this sentence
[Read the article: The gift of grandfathers]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]>Even men, who were too busy to spend much time with their own kids, are enjoying...
Sarah, you've used commas to set off a restrictive modifier. The sentence as written appears to describe all men, rather than the subset who were too busy to spend much time with their kids.
http://www.wisc.edu/writetest/Handbook/Commas.html#definitions
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Holy generalizations, Batwoman!
[Read the article: Holy generalizations, Batwoman!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]>Which other first ladies get the lesbian rumor?
Well, Eleanor Roosevelt did...but that actually supports your point.
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Are murder victims "asking for it" now too?
[Read the article: What else we're reading]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]To mention what a murder victim was wearing, when last seen, is called "reporting." To suggest there's any implication the victim was asking for it is insane.
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Why not Tiger Woods?
[Read the article: Stepford Illustrated]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Here's a hint. You won't see an image of Tiger Woods mowing the lawn in a tuxedo until Tiger himself chooses to be photographed that way.
Unless you have special knowledge that Ms. Gulbis was coerced, or Photoshopped, or that she didn't sign a stack of releases, or that she or her gender does not have agency, this image is merely an example of the single standard of cause and effect, choice and consequence.
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The right to hoopla-free expression
[Read the article: I love (to humiliate) women!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Chonin supports her conclusion that "a woman's body has no right being bared unless it is for the purpose of arousing a man" by alluding to the "hoopla" and "condemn[ation]" that attend images of breastfeeding and pregnancy on magazine covers.
She is thereby claiming that her rights are denied not by a prohibition of these images but by any expression of disapproval that any such image might possibly inspire.
Images of women and men sexually displayed are routinely covered up on magazine stands and are strictly regulated by law. Entire careers are built upon not only the condemnation of these images but upon their legal eradication.
Her "interesting" argument is that a woman does not have a right to do something unless she may do it 100% criticism-free. Naturally she permits herself the liberty to condemn images of her choosing. Her assertion that her rights are being denied when others do the same is a claim against your liberties and mine.
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Sign-off
[Read the article: Sinking anchor]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The host on XM's "IT" segment this morning proposed a suitable sign-off for Ms. Couric:
"And that's the way I am..."
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That's McIntosh...
[Read the article: Another reason to love Stephen Colbert]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...the variety of apple, not the brand of Apple.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McIntosh
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Blew an excellent setup line
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Makes much more sense if you fix the prep, as in: The Indians lost a four-game home series against the Mariners over the weekend, a feat even rarer than losing a four-game home series to the Mariners, a trick last pulled...
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Onion
[Read the article: U.S. soldiers used "comfort women," too]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Did everyone catch that Lydia Bernoldini and her firm do not exist, per Google? The story is ragging on men in workplaces who are unwilling to give a woman boss her props.
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A gun in the house
[Read the article: Democrats strike up the show]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]When Williams asked all eight candidates if they had ever lived in a home where someone had a gun, only the front-runners -- Clinton, Obama and Edwards -- admitted living a completely firearms-free existence.
Hillary Rodham Clinton lived in the White House for eight years. Pretty sure she knows she's lived in a home where someone had a gun and has in no way lived a firearms-free existence.
The actual question, transcript wording, was: "How many of you in your adult lifetime have had a gun in the house?" Not as obvious as in Shapiro's phrasing, but Senator Clinton should still have raised her hand.
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The "T" Word?
[Read the article: Various items]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Anybody else left guessing about what that is? It's "Typo." Alter actually refers to the "I word," meaning Imperialism.
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And for that matter...
[Read the article: Hillary commutes her views on Libby]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Bush promised that the leaker would no longer be part of the administration. Libby is neither the leaker nor any longer part of the administration. Bush never promised that a perjury conviction would yield jail time. So Hillary has failed to demonstrate any contradiction.
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Here's one that won't happen again...
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Of 18,000+ men ever to have played major league baseball, the leader in home runs also shows up first alphabetically.
Enjoy it while it lasts.
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The old "if s/he can't deal with this" fallacy
[Read the article: Roundup: Obama has no love for "Obama Girl"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Obama can deal with this and did, edgore. Just not in the ostrich-like manner you'd prefer.
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Affection reversed for Beltway power brokers?
[Read the article: Dianne Feinstein, symbol of the worthless Beltway Democrat]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Glenn, you may have reversed the word "reserved."
While we're on it, if I may petition you on a Glennism that does not appear in the present essay: it's "each more egregious than the last" rather than "each more than the next." Unless the stated trend is being reversed, rarely the case in your brilliant, painstaking expositions.
With thanks.