Wanted: More participants - by Neil Young
Laconia Citizen - Letter to the editor - 7/13/06 - by Neil Young
Wanted: More participants
Editor, The Citizen
The suggestion that only a very small percentage of listeners to a radio talk show will ever pick up the phone and become a caller — so it is with folks who read a daily newspaper or weekly — a few become contributors to the "Letters to the Editor" page.
While delivering The Weirs Times on Tuesday, the Fourth of July, a young man at Shaw's Gilford gathering carts in the parking lot was wishing everyone a Happy Fourth of July.
I congratulate Manager Ken for employing such a thoughtful young man.
A couple of days ago my wife asks, "Do you know Normand Goupil?" Is his wife Alyce? Does he live on Warren Street? Did he work for Pike? Yes.
Betty is always stunned at the number of people I know in Laconia (all ages). Well, this is where I have spent my whole life — along with so many others who are natives.
And it saddens me when one of them leaves us — they are part of my (our) history.
A number of years ago friend Paul and I were in Butson's on a Sunday afternoon. Folks were saying hello — calling me by name — me asking them how the children are — some by name.
Paul who is New Hampshire-born says, "You know everybody. I wish I still lived in my hometown." Now when meeting old school "chums" we talk about how we made it to be this old.
One of the loyal listeners and callers to the radio program is fondly called "the liberal lady." Last Saturday she began with wanting to know what we thought of the plagiarism by Ann Coulter. I defended Ann — and later asked: what would the "LL" say about Doris Kerns Goodwin (noted historian and Kennedy bum-kisser) and others of her group who have been named as plagiarists?
Well, now, according to Associated Press Lee Salem, editor and president at Universal Press Syndicate, the company that sells Ann's columns: "There are only so many ways you can rewrite a fact and minimal matching text is not plagiarism. Universal Press Syndicate is confident in the ability of Ms. Coulter, an attorney and frequent media target, to know when to make attribution and when not to."
Attribution is the right thing to do — I do it all of the time — but when does a universal thought put into print become somebody else's words? Attributed to the Volkswagen commercial — "Writers and callers wanted."
Niel Young
Laconia
Wanted: More participants
Editor, The Citizen
The suggestion that only a very small percentage of listeners to a radio talk show will ever pick up the phone and become a caller — so it is with folks who read a daily newspaper or weekly — a few become contributors to the "Letters to the Editor" page.
While delivering The Weirs Times on Tuesday, the Fourth of July, a young man at Shaw's Gilford gathering carts in the parking lot was wishing everyone a Happy Fourth of July.
I congratulate Manager Ken for employing such a thoughtful young man.
A couple of days ago my wife asks, "Do you know Normand Goupil?" Is his wife Alyce? Does he live on Warren Street? Did he work for Pike? Yes.
Betty is always stunned at the number of people I know in Laconia (all ages). Well, this is where I have spent my whole life — along with so many others who are natives.
And it saddens me when one of them leaves us — they are part of my (our) history.
A number of years ago friend Paul and I were in Butson's on a Sunday afternoon. Folks were saying hello — calling me by name — me asking them how the children are — some by name.
Paul who is New Hampshire-born says, "You know everybody. I wish I still lived in my hometown." Now when meeting old school "chums" we talk about how we made it to be this old.
One of the loyal listeners and callers to the radio program is fondly called "the liberal lady." Last Saturday she began with wanting to know what we thought of the plagiarism by Ann Coulter. I defended Ann — and later asked: what would the "LL" say about Doris Kerns Goodwin (noted historian and Kennedy bum-kisser) and others of her group who have been named as plagiarists?
Well, now, according to Associated Press Lee Salem, editor and president at Universal Press Syndicate, the company that sells Ann's columns: "There are only so many ways you can rewrite a fact and minimal matching text is not plagiarism. Universal Press Syndicate is confident in the ability of Ms. Coulter, an attorney and frequent media target, to know when to make attribution and when not to."
Attribution is the right thing to do — I do it all of the time — but when does a universal thought put into print become somebody else's words? Attributed to the Volkswagen commercial — "Writers and callers wanted."
Niel Young
Laconia
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