[Media-watch] letters to politicians + newspapers

[Rose Frain]

Dear Sigi, I always get replies to my emails and letters from both my MP and MSP.

Replies to emails from my Westminster MP only started happening when I pointed out (via email) that I what I was sending was 'an electronic letter' ie not a mass mail-out, and  that I value my time highly and do not have an assistant.

I imagine they all receive shoals of emails and letters. But then they also have assistants.

I have never received an acknowledgment from Tony Blairs office however, in spite of having to include all ones contact details (on the Locata website), but I always do from George Bush's, albeit a form acknowledgment.  
Nothing from A Sharon et al either  ....

I've had replies from Independent journalists on a range of topics, and I know they are worked extremely hard there.

Suggest you test by writing under a nom de guerre?

send update please (!)
Best wishes
Rose F






On Wednesday, October 22, 2003, at 01:50  pm, Sigi D wrote:

Hi - dear Media Watch friends,
A few questions:  POLITICIANS + NEWSPAPERS
(1) from your experience - do politicians reply to
your
emails / and letters? 
(2) Does anybody know how many emails and letters an
average politician, I mean a 'normal' (not high
profile) MP gets on a day?
(3) Do we have a right to get a reply from
politicians?
(4) is anybody actually reading the emails / letters
we send to the House of Commons? And if yes, who??
(5) Has anybody else experienced rejected emails from
the House of Commons because of the email filters in
use there? I had emails sent back / blocked - that
didn't
contain bad words or indecent stuff, honestly.
And 
DAILY NEWSPAPERS:  how many letters / emails are sent
to an
editor per day? for instance say the Independent? - 
I rarely get replies - but I have a very
foreign sounding surname, whereas my friend with a
very English sounding surname gets replies - same
subject, similar letter...
Talk shop, journalists!
Regards and best wishes
Sigi

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