Jack, do you work for the ACES?
I read the editorial page in The Augusta Chronicle on a daily basis, and wanted to congratulate your editorial staff on the viewpoints expressed.
They are current, well-written and hard-hitting on topics of utmost importance in these difficult times. Many editorials from other papers fail to tackle topics of interest in such a concise manner. I agree with most every stance the paper takes, so keep up the excellent work.
Your editorials should be required reading by every high school student.
Jack Demyan
Martinez
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Jack, do you work for the ACES?
Jack, if you like Chronicle editorials, you would have LOVED "Der Sturmer."
Jack probably is among the shrinking number who read The Chronicle print edition. I doubt that Jack will read our online comments. Both he & print newspapers are a dying breed. The Chronicle could reinvent itself & score a success as a member of new media if they make their news, information & targeted advertising accessible to the growing array of internet capable devices. One of the only useful pieces of information in The Chronicle that my family followed was a piece of advice from the woman who wrote a column on shopping. She wrote that anyone is crazy to pay full price at Kohl's. If you see something you want just wait a day or two and it will be on sale. My wife has followed her advice and shops Kohl's regularly for her and our daughters' clothes. Advertising targeted to my family's interests that is accessible by WiFi or cell phone would be welcome information that my family would use. If there is a way to target and personalize advertising there should also be a way to deliver news online that is tailored to a specific person's interest. The Chronicle needs to beef up its IT and advertising department and fire every last member of ACES. Augusta Chronicle editorials suck!
Yes the AC opinion page is a great place for a few laughs at the expense of racist ignorant rednecks who think fundamentalist christianity is just peachy, think women have no reproductive rights and that a blob of fetal tissue is constitutionally protected over and above the woman,
and think that Bush, Cheney and the Iraq War were just the greatest and that the country's financial ruin is all due to Democrats who forced mortgage brokers to make loans to poor people. It is not a good place to be unless you are a complete Limbaugh worshipping ditto head.
Some high school teacher probably already does this, but it could be a good exercise for students to read editorials and letters to the editor from a variety of sources, using a highlighter to mark the one sentence in each piece that seems best to express the author's underlying reason for writing the piece. In the case of your letter, that essential sentence would be "I agree with most every stance the paper takes, so keep up the excellent work." Now here comes my essential sentence: Your reason for reading the editorial page of the Chronicle is very different from mine.
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