Please cut these verbose letters

Dear Editor,

I would like to ask why your papers do not publish the radio schedule. I wrote to your papers about this omission some years ago, but got no reply. I do wish you would consider it.

A second point, again some years ago, it was stated that the paper would no longer print unduly long letters from readers. Sadly, the reverse seems to be happening now. Most letters are so tiresomely long that one does not bother to read through them. Can anything be done to edit these verbose missives?

Yours faithfully,
Nuala Pestano

Editor’s note
We have had hardly any enquiries about publishing a radio schedule.