Herald letter page

Can someome tell me how to get on the new Herald web site letter page some I can sent in a letter.

Just had a look and I can't see anything on there. Maybe they just use Facebook comments now (half their stories are from other Facebook pages as it is)?

I've logged on and can post comments but I cant find the old letters section or how you contact them, I suspect facetwat is all....

Yes that what I thought

Tgwu wrote:

Yes that what I thought

As peggy said already the idiots that writ for that toilet paper spend 24/7 on facbook looking for ANYTHING to report on cause journalism is dead.

the heralds advertisers must know we all use adblock? hard copy sales of the newspaper fell over 9% last year, can it survive?

Angry wrote:

Tgwu wrote:

Yes that what I thought

As peggy said already the idiots that writ for that toilet paper spend 24/7 on facbook looking for ANYTHING to report on cause journalism is dead.

One day when I've got nothing better to do I'll work out what percentage of their stories come from the Gossip Girls FB page (which is huge, so seen as a brilliant source for them) and other local FB pages. Then I'll eliminate the stories that are just adverts for local shops and restaurants. Then I'll take off the stuff they seem to get direct from the emergency services (they used to seem to know within minutes when the fire brigade had been called, and now it's the police). Then I'll take off the stories which are sent in by readers ('I saw this car parked really badly', that sort of thing) and the stuff which is franchised nationally (like the date / poo story this week).

Reckon there might be two or three original stories left. In a week.

they report the weather as 'news' a single comment by one person is turned into 'people of Plymouth say...' giant rats, bugs, aliens somewhere else 'may' be coming to Plymouth. it uses words like 'swanky in headlines, it regurgitates developers statements as if gospel - all developments are going to feature high class materials and be lovely, it is full of spelling mistakes. Sales continue to decline so why should I care.

Peggy wrote:

Angry wrote:

Tgwu wrote:

Yes that what I thought

As peggy said already the idiots that writ for that toilet paper spend 24/7 on facbook looking for ANYTHING to report on cause journalism is dead.

One day when I've got nothing better to do I'll work out what percentage of their stories come from the Gossip Girls FB page (which is huge, so seen as a brilliant source for them) and other local FB pages. Then I'll eliminate the stories that are just adverts for local shops and restaurants. Then I'll take off the stuff they seem to get direct from the emergency services (they used to seem to know within minutes when the fire brigade had been called, and now it's the police). Then I'll take off the stories which are sent in by readers ('I saw this car parked really badly', that sort of thing) and the stuff which is franchised nationally (like the date / poo story this week).

Reckon there might be two or three original stories left. In a week.

I'm a big believer that the herald should cut the number of editions it produces a week to 3-4 cause they simply cannot justify charging people for the crap they fill the paper with let along the site which is full of 10 reasons why plymouth is better than dubai kind of reports. The sales are dropping every year yet the paper gets worse.