Veteran Reporter Jean Godden--Letters To The Editor Are Fading Away

 Letters to the editor, a newspaper reader was to answer back to a paper's editorial views, or point out an inaccurate story, or say that a story should or shouldn't be run.  

In the past ten to 15 years, letters to the editor have taken a back seat to reader's online comments.  Former Seattle Times and PI columnist Jean Godden laments in the political blog, Post Alley, that letters to the paper are going the way of fax machines, phonebooks, landlines.   To read the post click here