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Letters to the Editor

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19 feature instances
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Letters to the Editor	comment	In Magazines, there are quite often letters to the editor. This trope is so common in magazines that only unusual examples are listed here. May be a Strongly Worded Letter. If fictional characters answer the mail, that's Fourth-Wall Mail Slot.
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Letters to the Editor / int_60e46926	type	Letters to the Editor
Letters to the Editor / int_60e46926	comment	In MAD's "Letters and Tomatoes Dept", letters were typically answered in a snide and insulting manner. They also published many letters that mocked the magazine creatively.
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Letters to the Editor / int_60e46e5c	comment	In the Radio 2 pop music satire show The Blagger's Guide, David Quantick claimed that when he worked for NME, they got a letter pointing out he'd panned a singer who'd quit the group he was reviewing years previously (because the third stage of being a music journo is sitting at home and making it up). He said he'd have been in real trouble if anyone at NME actually read letters to the editor.
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Letters to the Editor / int_61fb49e3	comment	Oh! Calcutta! has a song about them.
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Letters to the Editor / int_6277095a	comment	Analog: In April 1930, the magazine began publishing letters that had been sent in by fans. Fans such as, Isaac Asimov, Lester del Rey, Damon Knight, and Donald A Wollheim. They were often used as a way to correspond with people you had never met and included your address so that private correspondences could occur as well. This culture of communication in magazines like Astounding Stories were the source of mailing lists.
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Letters to the Editor / int_63e72a51	type	Letters to the Editor
Letters to the Editor / int_63e72a51	comment	2000 AD has always had its letters answered by Tharg The Mighty, except for one time in the The '90s where characters from Vector 13 took it over while Tharg took a leave of absence.
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Letters to the Editor / int_699c1e80	comment	Letters to the The Sensational She-Hulk were answered by the titular character or one of her supporting cast.
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Letters to the Editor / int_84782a62	comment	In the A Bit of Fry and Laurie sketch "Slightly Mad", the only way Arthur Meddlycott can convince his psychiatrist that he's insane is by revealing that he writes letters to newspapers — and apparently has them all memorized.
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Letters to the Editor / int_8f4ee60f	comment	The direct-to-video special The Secrets of the Back to the Future Trilogy, hosted by Kirk Cameron, answered some questions that fans of the trilogy had sent.
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Letters to the Editor / int_9bb76467	comment	John Holmes's spot on The Now Show used to include people writing to him about topical events, heralded by "Let's take a listen to a letter." The letters would often point out that they were obviously fictional and an excuse for whatever he wanted to talk about. On at least one occasion, it was a reaction to the thing he'd just said.
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Letters to the Editor / int_9e876c22	comment	Good Omens: R.P. Tyler, self-appointed Moral Guardian, frequently writes editorial letters to the local newspaper condemning the moral decline of the nation's youth, as evidenced by [insert The New Rock & Roll subject here]. He writes so many, in fact, that the newspaper can't print them all, leading him to write letters complaining that some of his letters aren't published.
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Letters to the Editor / int_a656a587	comment	In The Truth, William is baffled by the amount of insane (and badly spelled) mail he receives, much of it from Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells types. He eventually decides to print them all to take up space. Especially when his dwarf business partner tells him to put in one complaining about dwarfs because it will attract letters complaining about that one, and fill even more space.
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Letters to the Editor / int_ad29dc16	comment	All in the Family: The basis of plot in the eighth-season episode "Archie and the KKK" starts with Mike's letter to a local newspaper giving his thoughts on looting, arson, vandalism, etc. during a recent citywide blackout; his opinion takes the typical liberal attitude: It's not the criminal, but the black man's response to perceived injustice and frustration with an economic system geared toward affluent whites and against already impoverished African Americans and other minorities, and that when the government engages in the same activity as the criminals did, it's "free enterprise." Unusual in that letters to the editor were rarely a topic even mentioned in a situation comedy.
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Letters to the Editor / int_b0e0ea86	comment	The UK show Points of View consists largely of such letters. It's one of the most mocked shows on British TV.
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Letters to the Editor / int_bb9d6724	comment	Ambush Bug answered his own letters, and in his first issue was puzzled that he had to wait months for feedback from the reader who had just finished the book.
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Letters to the Editor / int_c4bfb038	comment	When Marvel re-launched Tales of Suspense in 2017, they used legacy numbering, picking up at #100. It had a fake letter column with the conceit that the letters had been moldering in the Bullpen since 1968, when #99 was published. Highlights included complaints about the steep cost of comics (12 cents an issue!) and a proposal that Captain America team up with President-elect Richard Nixon.
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Letters to the Editor / int_ca5d97f1	comment	Monty Python's Flying Circus regularly parodies this (and Points of View) with letters written to newspapers that read as if the writers were on drugs or crazy. One letter complains about the letters, as they "clearly not written by the general public and are merely included for a cheap laugh. Yours sincerely etc., William Knickers."
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Letters to the Editor / int_cabb7dd6	comment	In Yokoka's Quest, the author has taken questions from the readers for two anniversary events. The answers to these were made into Q&A strips, with either the characters or the Author Avatar giving the answers.
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Letters to the Editor / int_e29841bf	comment	1963 would have a fictional Letters to the Editor page, parodying the columns Stan Lee would put out for Marvel in the The '60s.
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Letters to the Editor / int_f3951003	comment	Famicom Dojo had The Dojo Mailbag. Not long after, the segment was renamed to Famicom Denshimail and became it's own sub-series.
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Radical Bromance (Lets Play) / int_1312305b	type	Letters to the Editor
The Pushcart War / int_1312305b	type	Letters to the Editor
Analog (Magazine) / int_1312305b	type	Letters to the Editor
The Wrestling Observer Newsletter (Magazine) / int_1312305b	type	Letters to the Editor
The Vinyl Cafe (Radio) / int_1312305b	type	Letters to the Editor
All in the Family / int_1312305b	type	Letters to the Editor
Wolf Like Me / int_1312305b	type	Letters to the Editor
Yes Virginia: The Musical (Theatre) / int_1312305b	type	Letters to the Editor
Blacklight Retribution (Video Game) / int_1312305b	type	Letters to the Editor
Yokoka's Quest (Webcomic) / int_1312305b	type	Letters to the Editor
Les Shadoks / int_1312305b	type	Letters to the Editor
'Twas the Night Before Christmas / int_1312305b	type	Letters to the Editor
The Wrestling Observer Newsletter (Wrestling) / int_1312305b	type	Letters to the Editor

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