Friday, August 26, 2011

ACT: Daily Telegraph (UK) letter lengths August 26 (for upcoming (Aug 29) bad Max Pemberton ME article)

Some of us have seen an annoying (Dr.) Max Pemberton article on ME and
ME activism that appeared on the Daily Telegraph website briefly. He
confirmed on Twitter that it was put up in error but will be in
Monday's edition (although we can always hope it doesn't happen).

Anyway, I thought I'd post this early as it will be important to get
letters in quickly on Monday or Tuesday as my "research" shows.

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(from http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/letters/ ) Your letters to
the Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph and Telegraph.co.uk. Letters
should be sent to dtletters@telegraph.co.uk (dtletters @
telegraph.co.uk) (Daily Telegraph) or stletters@telegraph.co.uk
(Sunday Telegraph). Please include name, address, and work and home
telephone numbers.

[TK: Sunday Telegraph bit isn't relevant but thought I'd give full quote]

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This does not include the bit in brackets e.g. (Letters, August 24),
(Comment, August 25), etc. which might only be in one letter if more
than one letter is published on a subject:

Length of individual letters in Friday's paper: 23, 24, 31, 35, 35,
47, 50, 51, 52, 53, 66, 76, 114, 118, 127, 137, 145, 169, 179 and 182.

Summary: 19 letters ranging from 23-182 words.

Median length: 66 words

11 letters under 100 words,

8 letters 100-199 words,

0 letters 200+ words

Letters on August 23 paper: 1

Letters on August 24 paper: 8

Letters on August 25 paper: 9

Letters on August 26 paper: 1 (I=92m bit confused by this one)

Anyway, presuming the article is in Monday=92s Telegraph, they are most
likely to publish letters on Tuesday and/or Wednesday (it seems) i.e.
we=92ll need to get in pretty quick.

Tom

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