I Ought to Write a Letter



I don't know whether to blame the US military's "letters to the editor" scandal on media's bias against the war in Iraq or their sheer stupidity. In my (limited) experience working in political campaigns, I saw scores of letters being written for supporters of my candidates to mail to their local papers. Virtually every organization from AARP to the First Church of the Declawed Hamster gives its members sample letters to sign and send in urging one cause or another.



Why is this scandalous? Maybe because the only thing the bottom-feeding, bias-riddled press corps can cover is scandal. And if they can't find one, they'll invent one.