Letters to the Editor
Gee whiz!
Published Letters: 5
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On the "Who Needs Karl Rove When We've Got the New York Times" Dept...
[Read the article: Whatever it is, we didn't do it]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Increasingly, every time I walk past the NYT front door on West 43rd Street, I find it hard to resist the desire to go thru the revolving doors and hurl a shoe box filled with cow manure into the lobby. It's a great if impotent fantasy. It's really appalling to me to contrast the NYT of today with the paper I remember from back in June 1971 when I was finishing service in Vietnam and the paper courageously defied the U.S. government and published the Pentagon Papers. Jeez!
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How she got her job
[Read the article: Perino watch, again]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The only explanation: she's not hard on the eyes, and certainly among the bunch of hypocrites with whom she serves, she MUST have a "special" patron....
I think the best action for the press corps to take in the face of this (mal) administration is to stop attending this daily farce.
As my parents often said of nuisances, "Perhaps if we pay no attention to it, it'll just go away."
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Suggestions for your coverage
[Read the article: Candidates beware -- I'm on the beat]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]In consonance with other readers, I ask you please to apply your self-described mysterious talents to the ambitions of Giuliani, Huckabee and Romney, but especially to Giuliani. You would be doing the nation an enormous service if you helped to derail their campaigns.
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Who's Salon's grammarian?
[Read the article: Who would Antonin Scalia torture?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Whatever happened to the accusative case in American English?
Doesn't Alan Berlow mean to write: "WhoM would Antonin Scalia torture?"
I mean, really, it would be fun to rearrange the word order here and come up with "Who would torture Antonin Scalia?"
Given his judicial philosophy, I would be intemperate enough to be the first to volunteer for the job.
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Spelling and grammar
[Read the article: Poor America]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]What indeed has happened to the correct use of the nominative and accusative cases among people who should know better?
This morning on NPR I heard one of the anchors query a correspondent in Iraq about the upsurge of violence in Basra by asking "Who's fighting who?" It wouldn't surprise me to hear one of Mr. Murdoch's minions so misspeak, but NPR?
Likewise, Salon.com occasionally suffers from such mistakes: I posted a letter about one on Jan. 3 of this year.