Wrote a letter to the editor and my local paper spiked it because of "tone"

Blair Allen · 2026-04-26T16:05:05.013666+00:00

Sent a piece about a zoning board decision that literally cleared the way for a developer to tear down a 100 year old building. The editor emailed me back saying my language was "too confrontational" and they'd run it if I softened it up. I rewrote it three times and they still killed it. Anyone else had a paper just straight up refuse to print something that wasn't libel?

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