I would like to associate myself with the comments made in the letter written by Victor Beecher in the Great Neck News of April 1.
This publication has generously allowed a small group of people to abuse what it euphemistically refers to as its “letter policy,” the violations have become egregious and a new policy is not only needed but needed to be strictly enforced.
I would respectfully submit to the publisher that his subscribers are not paying for the weekly “Larry Penner Great Neck News,” neither are we subscribing to the weekly wit and wisdom of Hal Sobel nor the weekly musings of Frederick Bedell Jr.
This newspaper, or any other, should not be the vehicle that provides self-aggrandizement for any individual.
May I respectfully suggest a new policy limiting letter writing by any one individual to an unconditional one letter per month.
Additionally, since the current policy that maximizes the length of a letter to 300 words is routinely overlooked, I would suggest that there be no word quantification but rather that quantification be left to what the editor believes the readership will find informative and entertaining without exceeding reasonable and prudent boundaries.
I trust that the ‘wordsmithmanship’ of Messrs. Penner, Sobel, and Bedell, now each hopefully being limited to 12 epistles per year, will become so much more articulate and interesting without having the pressure of a self-imposed weekly deadline of what, in effect, has become their weekly columns of questionable journalistic merit.
Alan A. Gray
Great Neck
