(Cover Kerrie Hanlon)
The Mentor No: 40 - Oct 1982
Letter
I thank Bruce Western for his apology but assure him that I have long been of the opinion that a bad review is better than no review at all. And anybody who sets up shop as a public entertainer must expect brickbats as well as bouquets.
As a matter of fact I often write stinking letters myself when displeased by something that I have read or seen on TV. I do not post these at once, however. After a couple or three days I reread them and either tear them up or entrust them to the uncertain mercies of our postal service. Sometimes I get a reply, sometimes I don’t. On three recent occasions when I didn’t, the Long Loud Silence on the part of the recipient was obviously due to his/her/their guilty conscience... (One of those was to a local TV station whose asinine news reader referred to the ill fated Lusitania as an "American cruise liner...")