Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!watmath!watcgl!kim From: kim@watsup.waterloo.edu (T. Kim Nguyen) Newsgroups: can.general Subject: Re: The Newspaper Effect. Message-ID:Date: 25 Sep 89 20:54:14 GMT References: <141@isgtec.UUCP> <18804@looking.on.ca> Sender: daemon@watcgl.waterloo.edu Organization: PAMI Group, U. of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 20 In-reply-to: brad@looking.on.ca's message of 21 Sep 89 17:04:30 GMT In article <18804@looking.on.ca> brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton) writes: You seem to imply that the audience is small. Don't say "we" all know it then, because I know the letters page gets a bigger audience than most of the paper, front page and funnies excepted. I find myself usually laughing at the hilariously ridiculous opinions expressed by crackpots and fascists in letters to the editor. Some letters to the editor are rational and deserve serious consideration, but I find that having to sift these from the garbage takes too much time. I thought most people had the same impression of those letters. Of course, your argument about the letters page getting a bigger audience isn't entirely relevant either; after all, the Toronto Sun probably has a very large audience, but that doesn't say much for its content. :-) -- T. Kim Nguyen kim@watsup.waterloo.{edu|cdn} kim@watsup.uwaterloo.ca {uunet|utzoo|utai|decvax}watmath!watsup!kim Systems Design Engineering -- University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada