LETTER: The Statesman hates me
To the editor:
Your comments from “Most people don’t understand the journalism industry at all” were over the line.
Here is the briefest of biographies: I used to be an avid Statesman reader and letter-to-the-editor writer; then a while back, the paper decided to give opinion column space to someone who would write week after week about nothing except why my religion was terrible and how I was a moron for following it. I stopped reading.
I would think one would not have to “thoroughly understand the journalism industry” to know that constantly insulting your readers isn’t the best way to sell papers. I picked up another edition of the Statesman hoping the attitude of the opinion columnists had changed to something more professional and was treated instead to manners 101, as if I were some six-year-old back-talking the editor. Apparently, the haughty attitude of the staff at the Statesman hasn’t changed since I last “subscribed.”
I also found it sadly amusing that you violated your rule about civil written dialogue in the very letter that you made it.
That letter wasn’t classy.
– Nathan Searcy