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Sometimes you've just got to do it yourself

Let's not hold our breath and wait to see if The New York Post prints letters to the editor with viewpoints that clearly differ from their own. Instead, let us self-publish. Here is an example letter written in response to the offensive and skewed cover printed on February 14th in our fine city of New York:

Friday, valentines day, 2003

To the editor:

Being one who has spent considerable time in the publishing industry, I am all but too familiar with deadlines and apparently in the case of your staff, sleep depravation.

Surely you have already realized already that the dodgy Photoshop work on the Feb 14 cover is misguided, inappropriate, and very un-cupid like.

While I'm sure you'll agree that photo manipulation is fine in the context of a parody issue or article, it is interesting that your paper used this technique on a supposed 'news' article to make the heads of two of the more sensible representatives in our current world debate appear as if they were the heads of small carnivorous mammals that would ordinarily have short legs and elongated body.

Ok, I guess it's a little funny when you look at it that way, but it would be more accurate to place these blood-thirsty heads over the faces of OUR administration in this dialogue and to find a good image of a lemming head and place it roughly over the faces of the editorial staff at the 'Post, and over the faces of our poor, uninformed citizens who have been unnecessarily terrorized into supporting this military machine. Ah, the lemmings of war. Sounds like a love song.

But look at how quickly we get off track. I hope you all get a nice night's sleep soon.

Regards,
Aaron Deutsch
Brooklyn

Posted by Aaron R. Deutsch on February 16, 2003 01:05 PM

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