[Leica] letters from the editor

[don.dory at gmail.com (Don Dory)]

I will thank you again for stepping up to produce our yearbook.   It
appears that taking pictures is dying off like reading an email list.

On Sat, Feb 12, 2022, 6:42 PM Brian Reid <reid at mejac.carlsbad.ca.us> 
wrote:

> For decades I was an editor (and occasionally THE editor) of a weekly
> online publication covering the worldwide Anglican church (Episcopal,
> Church of England, Scottish Episcopal Church, etc.) It started in 1994,
> and at its peak in 2010 it had 250,000 readers worldwide.
>
> It had a "letters to the editor" section that before the era of Facebook
> and Twitter often had 20 or 30 publishable letters each week.
>
> As instant media gradually eliminated interest in waiting a week to see
> your letter published, I needed to work harder and harder to get people
> to submit letters to us. Towards the end, I often resorted to submitting
> "Letters from the Editor", in which I used pseudonyms to craft
> realistic-looking letters and submitted them to myself. It was fun, a
> lot of work, and ultimately pointless. I closed the Letters to the
> Editor section in 2016 and I shut down the publication itself in 2019.
>
> This week I thought briefly about doing something similar with the 2021
> LUG Yearbook. Every year we lose LUG members and every year there are
> fewer images submitted. Could I submit photographs from fake people,
> keeping to myself the secret that I had taken those pictures myself?
>
> No.
>
> I'm an expert writer, and I can craft a letter to the editor that no one
> will think was written by me. But I'm a duffer photographer, and I can't
> make images worthy of padding the yearbook without them looking like I
> took them.
>
> All of the LUG yearbooks contain only pictures taken by real people.
> This year there just won't be as many of them.
>
> http://leica-users.org/yearbook/submitting.html
>
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