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  • From: "Tanner Lovelace" <clubjuggler AT gmail.com>
  • To: "Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/" <internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [internetworkers] funny bumpersticker
  • Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 12:12:42 -0400

On 9/21/06, Lance A. Brown <lance AT bearcircle.net> wrote:
First off, they were letters to the editor, not editorials. Isn't there
a difference? I thought editorials were written by the paper, or people
at the paper, and letters to the editor are just that.

I hadn't considered that people may be astroturfing letters to the
editor, which I find a heinous idea but entirely within the realm of
today's political discourse, unfortunately. Do you have any references
on this I could use to educate myself?

Letters to the editor are definitely one of the ways astroturfing
works. See the wikipedia article for more info

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astroturfing

Cheers,
Tanner

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