vision2020@moscow.com: Re: 2020 list and the DN

Re: 2020 list and the DN

Steve Cooke (scooke@novell.uidaho.edu)
Wed, 14 May 1997 10:07:26 PST8PDT

Dear Visionaries,
I would like to say a big "thank you" to Mark Trahant for his policy
statement re. letters to the editor from the V2020 list. In
retrospect, it seems kind of an obvious solution once he
stated it. Yet it is a creative and open approach to a
new problem of connecting net- and print-focused citizens that no one has
suggested in the 3 or 4 yrs the list has existed.
Steve Cooke

> Vision folk:
>
> As H. Ross Perot would say, "here's the deal."
>
> The Daily News will print letters from the Vision2020 list as regular
> letters to the editor. To make it happen, simply copy in
> <letters@moscow.com> as a cc in the header file. Your full name and the
> city you live in would help too.
>
> What kind of letters? Any kind of public discussion. Frankly one benefit
> from the 2020 list is that regular comments could be shorter and more
> frequent rather than longer polemics. The length of a paragraph or two
> often makes the most powerful letter. You might also remember that
> newspaper readers might not have the same context, ie, responding to other
> comments, etc.
>
> So let's give this us try. We look forward to this experiment. We will only
> print those letters copied to us -- so don't worry about changing the
> nature of ongoing conversation.
>
> -- Mark
>
> Mark N. Trahant
> Editor & Publisher
> Moscow-Pullman Daily News
> 409 S. Jackson
> Moscow, Idaho 83843
> (208) 882-5561 ext. 247
> fax (208) 883-8205
>
> A Free & Responsible Press: 50 Years After Hutchins
> -- special series in the Daily News available at <http://www.dnews.com>
>
>
>
> *************************
>
> "I really have so much fun, I ought to be arrested."
> -- I.F. Stone, 1971
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>
>
>
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Dept. of Ag. Economics & Rural Soc.
University of Idaho
Moscow, ID 83843
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