My final letter
The last letter to the editor that I wrote was in defense of rodeos.
For that I lost a very good client and received a death threat.
What is the difference if someone uses a pen name when you, the editors, won’t print letters that are libelous or slanderous?
Editorials that newspapers print are unsigned, except the last one, not coincidentally, by Mike Hagan.
Who writes the nightly news? The UPI, Reuters, etc.?
This is my last letter to the editor.
Alan Smithee
aka Jimmy Pierce
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