I've probably submitted five letters to the editor on various topics in my lifetime. All five were published. It's easy. Just keep it short, have a main point and argument, and refer to articles that the paper has written.
HP has thousands of readers. Time to deploy the forces, in our fight against evil (you know, Bob Toll, Realtors, Flippers, Greed, Ignorance...)
Write a short letter, then watch for a few days and see if it gets published. Post any letters to BUBBLETALK, and let us know there if you get published too.
Here's a sample one to get your creative juices flowing:
Dear Editor:
Good god are we screwed.
Sincerely
George Smith
Click on this post's link to go to the Arizona Republic's letters site, and click here for San Diego, and here for Miami and here for Las Vegas. That should get a few of you started.
March 11, 2006
HP Readers - Stop what you're doing right now, google your local paper, and write a letter to the editor on the bubble burst underway
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I have sent two different letters on the topic of "Housing Bubble Bursting, I am renting, not buying" to two different Orlando Sentinal Real Estate Blogs, and both times the ENTIRE BLOG was removed within hours! Then the following Sunday there were four sections with pages and pages of Full Color Advertisments for NEW CONDOS for sale by developers in The Sunday Edition of The Orlando Sentinal! HMMMMM.
the same thing happens on this blog too........posts are routinely deleted by the blog host
one of my posts was deleted from this blog too
doesn't happen folks. the only and I mean only poster ever to have the luxury of getting a post removed was our friend the banker, who spammed the site with the same post over and over on multiple threads
not one single other post has been removed in the history of the blog due to content except other true spam (viagra, mortgage ads, etc)
i've sent a couple letters to the editor (norfolk VA), but none have been publised.....people are in deinal over here
I've have two of my posts deleted (and I'm not the banker!)
sorry folks, just isn't happening on this end. if you post and it doesn't catch, it simply could be because it didn't load
bayh - that's the one
If these corrupt newspapers aren't publishing letters in order to toady up to their real estate advertisers, someone should start a blog printing all of the rejected letters. We could then pester the editors to provide an explanation for why they are rejecting intelligent and well-written letters that question housing prices.
Why should I care whether people are making bad investment decisions enough to write a letter to the editor about it?
that's bs keith......you haven't deleted any of my posts, but i'll see someone else's post up one minute.....and then when i respond to the troll (and defend you and the blog), the post that i am responding to has been deleted and I look like an idiot
The omission of the bubble news by newspapers is spin/propaganda to stop a panic sell off of Real Estate and to keep The Big Developer advertisers paying for "House/condo For Sale" adds.
anon #4440205 - wrongo. you do realize that a poster can remove their own post and they do all the time
Get a life.
wrongo keith - you don't even know how your blog works
"This post has been removed by the author" means that the post was removed by the author
"post disappearing without a trace" means that Keith deleted the post
get some integrity
last anon - I hate to tell you, but the government hasn't inserted listening devices in your fillings, and little green men aren't visting you at night.
you'll be ok. but seek help.
keith - ignore that guy.....paying attention to him brings more attention to the matter.....you can delete posts if you want to, it's your blog and your right
Can anyone tell me why should I care whether people are making bad investment decisions enough to write a letter to the editor about it?
I'm more interested in what I can do to profit from this.
Blogspot has comment problems all the time. People would complain their comments don't show up. They would after a great deal of time.
It was one of the reasons why Ben Jones had to get his own site. Another big reason was because Blogspot would be inaccessible completely a few hours each day. It has gotten better, but downtime is still almost as bad as MySpace.
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