Dear Readers,
The
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what’s more it is the brain child of the relatively new Editor S’Thembiso
Msomi, who writes a column in the paper every week. He took the very courageous
and unusual step of giving his personal email address in his column. Did he
think this through before revealing it? Had he lined up the necessary members
of staff to help him deal with a possible avalanche of emails?
Well if my experience it anything to go by it turned out to
be completely POINTLESS.
I
sent my first email on 21/9/2020 suggesting he included a certain story in his
paper. And when I got no reply I repeated it on 30/9/2020 adding: “I wonder if
you ever got this?” Again I got no reply. So last week I phoned the paper in an
effort to speak to the Editor.
It turned out that the Virus is so bad there that it’s a
nightmare to find somebody to answer a phone. How you expect a newspaper with declining
advertising sales to survive these days Mr Editor when you make it so difficult
for anybody to speak to any member of your staff, is beyond me. Great news
stories that could boost your paper’s circulation considerably could be passing
you by daily. But that’s another story.
Eventually I got hold of a reporter. I told him briefly what my problem was and he said he would pass it on to the Editor, who was expected to come in shortly. I gave him my telephone number. Well I’m still waiting to hear from the Editor. If he didn’t get my emails the least he could have done was to phone me to say so.
In keeping with the theme of the Sunday Times’ version of the game my emails and telephone calls all
turned out to be POINTLESS.
Perhaps S’Thembiso your courage will extend to including
this post in your column next week, if you ever see the email I am sending you
with the link to it.
Regards,
Jon, the
Poor Man’s Press Ombudsman and former
Sunday Times investigative journalist in the days before COVID-19, when
they didn’t play POINTLESS GAMES.
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