Merritt Loses One
The following letter made its way to my desk today:
I have always enjoyed your paper, but have decided not to renew my subscription because of Merritt Patterson’s column. I don’t know her and have no personal feelings good or bad against her, but what she writes has absolutely no “good” in it. Nothing good can come from humor without heart, so I cannot support the paper that promotes words completely void of worth.
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Does this make Merritt the “Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition” of the Park Cities? You know, SI gets thousands of canceled subscriptions every year when that issue hits the stands, outnumbered only by the new, and renewed, subscriptions.
And I can’t help but notice that over half of December’s most popular blog posts are from Merritt.
But don’t tell Merritt I’m defending her: she’ll come to expect it.
There MUST be some personal feelings involved if a reader is cancelling his/her subscription because of one columnist’s offerings. Did he/she cancel their cable service because there are naughty programs available? I’m willing to bet, probably not. Geez, whatever happened to just skipping over the part you don’t like? It seems unlikely that there’s “no personal feelings, good or bad, against her.” The other odd thing is that I have read every one of Ms. Patterson’s columns since she started and they appear (to me, at least) to be pretty benign in their intent: poking a little fun at some of our Bubble ways. To say that her words are “completely void of worth” is pretty harsh. I think I’d save that criticism for someone who really deserves it. You know, like rascists or terrorists…not a working mom with four kids.
Good for you for cancelling your subscription because of Merritt’s cruel comments…I don’t know her either, but I have read the column a few times and find it mean spirited. I have heard of at least a dozen friends that have cancelled their subsriptions becasue of her. She is very hypocritical (she herself parks in those “sick” child spaces that she writes about)….I don’t have a subscription so I don’t need to cancel it, but I would if I could.
Let’s all try being nice in 2008.