New York Times Suggestions For Letter Writers

This is in response to the article in the New York Times by Thomas Feyer, addressing tips to help those writing letters to the editor. The first thing that crossed my mind is whether or not this was only printed once. Though most letter writers probably do at least glance at the page everyday, but maybe not. It might be affective enough to print it once, but surely they will have to print this kind of article at least once a year, if they have a need to print it once. The second thing that jumped out at me was that the author suggests keeping things concise, which is a good suggestion, but this article is not very concise. It could be a quarter of the length. He does do a great job at making it very clear and easy to read, but it's quite long. They probably could've printed an extra letter or two, that issue, if this article was compacted the way it could have been. I also wonder whether or not this really made a difference in what they recieved.