One person’s email is someone else’s junk
SO NICK INMAN (Gripe, last issue) is fed up with editors who don’t reply to his emails. Has he ever considered that his emails are just another form of unsolicited junk mail that busy editors don’t have the time to respond to?
Perhaps Nick should wake up and smell the 21st Century. These days we’re bombarded with spam, badly targeted emails from PRs and offers of work from freelancers, many of whom have clearly not read the publication. If editors responded to all of these, half the day would be gone.
And as for following up with a conventional letter, doesn’t he think that wasting paper is just adding unenvironmental insult to injury? If someone hasn’t bothered replying to an email, there’s little chance they’ll reply to snail mail. Nick is obviously living in the 1950s if he thinks letters have any impact in 2008.
And just to emphasise how out of touch he is, Nick signed off with a comment about how staff journalists have “generous salaries”. Laugh? I almost choked on my gruel.
No, Nick, you’re clearly too sensitive for this line of work if silent rejection bothers you. Have you considered a career in non-competitive flower arranging?