
The official seal from the Wonderland Dead Letter Office appropriately picturing the extinct dodo bird.
Last week Talker answered the CITY‘s call to submit a FEEDBACK letter, hoping to encourage other Letter to the Editor writers. Today, the CITY kindly printed “Picking up the slack.”
Actually, for years Talker has lamented the decline in popularity — for both readers and writers — of a the venerable form that have has been part of printed newspapers for centuries.
The 2016 Is Public Input to the D&C a Dead Letter? bemoans the diminished presence — online and print — on the pages of the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle.
As alluded to in my letter, the 2019 Saying goodbye to the weekday print edition of the Democrat and Chronicle chastises the D & C for its shortsighted reduction of the Opinion page to a mere two days a week. [UPDATE, THIS WEEKEND, 1/19-20, THE D & C DROPPED THE SATURDAY OPINION PAGE. SUNDAY IS THE SOLE SURVIVOR.]
Since 2012, CITY has allowed me to express opinions in its public forum five times, each of which became incorporated into a Talker article. (below)

David Kramer holding the ever vanishing Speaking Out section of the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, 1/5/19. From The D & C does not publish our letter on its sexist use of language
Saying goodbye to the weekday print edition of the Democrat and Chronicle
On Michael J. Nighan’s letter to the CITY Otterness and MAG
The City spreads the word about the Jim Crow Museum’s offer. Before it’s too late.
Substitute teachers in the RCSD are a rich and untapped resource
Moving forward after school at Northeast; Wegmans stays the course
SEE ALSO A look inside the “readers page” from NYTimes Letter-to-the-Editor editor Tom Feyer

Photo provided by Tom Feyer showing the sheer volume of letters he receives (and reads).
For you, Talker buys the D & C digital archives. And Noam Chomsky

(l-r) David Kramer, Valeria Chomsky, Noam Chomsky at the Eisenberg Rotunda, Schlegel Hall, University of Rochester [Photo: Leslie Kramer 4/21/16]