Letters We’d Like to Get

We get plenty of letters and comments from you, our readers. Sometimes, however, we think about feedback we would have liked to receive from people who didn’t take the time to write us. Here are a few examples.

Dear Scene:
Your recent article about Terry Egger retiring as publisher of the Plain Dealer seems to indicate that things here in the newsroom have hit a bump in the road. Who knows what detours lie in our future—there certainly won’t be signs pointing the way—but roadblocks aren’t up yet. To assume the paper’s demise is around the corner is speeding dangerously toward a dead end. Pump your brakes. Turn on those high beams. And clean off the windshield. There are no potholes as far as I can see, and if anybody would know if something bad was going to happen at this paper, it’d be me, the newsroom traffic cop.

John Horton
Road Rant Columnist

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Dear Scene:
I noticed that the Grog Shop is celebrating its 20th anniversary. I pissed on the wall there once. Jolly good time. I also pissed on your paper.

Liam Gallagher
Manchester, England

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This article appears in Sep 12-18, 2012.