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The yobbo decline of the letters page. (Devine).(letter to the editor)
ON AN AVERAGE day, Australia's eight metropolitan daily newspapers, and its two national ones, publish more than 200 readers' letters to the editor, out of about 1500 they receive. This makes for anxious mornings for editors, as they sip their Roederer Crystal '97 and wait for their valets to lay out their kit for the day. Will there be fresh (or any) information in the letters? Will there be wit? Will there be clear thinking and lucid exposition? Will there be letters from eminences and celebs to bring glitter to the letters page? Will there be touches of cheerfulness and goodwill? A hint of thunderous eloquence?
A certain despondency must descend on the editors ...
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