Social media death to letter pages
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bertgrower
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Social media death to letter pages
With the increase in social media has developments in society in general and particuler areas of inerest in general shown a decline in the quality of debate in printed matter and as result there as been a decline in the level of knowledge and understanding by the population in general?
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thirdcrank
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Re: Social media death to letter pages
In the context of the CTC, this used to mean a letter to the editor, which might or might not be published, then the pace of any discussion would be governed by the bi-monthly publication date. If you had a technical query, as a CTC member you could write to CJ and get a prompt reply but one which nobody else would see unless he thought it was worth publishing to the wider audience, with again, timelines running into months.
There was a policy decision some years ago to cut down the letters section and then the change of editor changed the nature of the letters section completely: instead of a discussion with other members, ""letters to the editor" was interpreted literally.
I know I'm not alone in regretting the loss of the technical officer, but that's not part of the wider issue about social media.
IMO this forum is immeasurably better for sharing knowledge than the correspondence pages of the CTC mag. It's prompt, there's plenty of knowledge on a vast range of subjects and the only space limitation is the typing energy of contributors. members can ignore what they don't like and enjoy what they do.
There was a policy decision some years ago to cut down the letters section and then the change of editor changed the nature of the letters section completely: instead of a discussion with other members, ""letters to the editor" was interpreted literally.
I know I'm not alone in regretting the loss of the technical officer, but that's not part of the wider issue about social media.
IMO this forum is immeasurably better for sharing knowledge than the correspondence pages of the CTC mag. It's prompt, there's plenty of knowledge on a vast range of subjects and the only space limitation is the typing energy of contributors. members can ignore what they don't like and enjoy what they do.