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I’m John Raese, and I Approved This Letter to the Editor

By | 09.29.10 | 3:01 pm

Apparently, West Virginia GOP Senate candidate and wealthy businessman John Raese is holding a “contest” in which he’s offering to pay the person in each county who publishes the most letters to the editor on his behalf, and the Parkersburg News and Sentinel, for one, isn’t having it:

Want a Voice in the NYT? Write ‘Pithy’ Letters ‘With a Strong Conservative Point of View’

By | 01.06.09 | 6:23 pm

Quick follow on the earlier post wondering why one conservative letter writer has been published in The New York Times at least 44 times in the last decade…

Here’s a September 2007 online exchange with The Times’ editorial page editor Andrew Rosenthal, who is More…

This Is Not a Conspiracy Theory, But Simply an Observation on One Amazingly Prolific NYT Letter Writer

By | 01.06.09 | 3:00 pm

Think it’s tough to get your thoughts published by the most venerable newspaper in the country? Don’t tell that to Margaret McGirr.

The Greenwich, Conn., resident has seen no fewer than 35 letters to the editor appear in the New York Times in the last decade — with at least More…