When responding to the paper, unless you know a staff [(member)]personally, don’t spend more than 5 minutes. Unless you are a highschool student earning brownie points for college, or are a politician/lawyer, civic leader, don’t respond to requests to clarify your message, by reducing the number of words, or answering a number of questions.

 

The main problem is disintegration or GLOSS up of what you write, if not plain invalidation (discardment), with “questions", OR, circulation of what you write, beyond the intended audience, in a way that is not revealed to you.  They didn’t print it but, the editor showed it to his daughter in highschool, to his friend on the police force, to the FBI, to the CIA, and so on.

 

Under the Bush administration, they do a credit check, and then they listen to you.  Truth be told, some people are tired of being handled as though illegal, or as an undercover cop.  The secret life of the press agent, would do you more wonders, than any PRESS you could read, that they write.  Why do some people only read the “New York Post” (or read not at all)?  No one wonders, any more.*