When I saw the story “Sununu’s business pitch: Keep taxes low” in a recent edition (Monitor front page, April 4), I was eager to read how Gov. Chris Sununu spun the same tired story of the “New Hampshire Advantage.” Many of us know the real story as “we won’t tax you at the state level, instead we will downshift the expenses required to run a state to your local community so you can instead pay higher property taxes and blame your town officials instead of your state government.” I hoped the story would be ripe for a letter to express exactly this sentiment. But my anticipated joy was instead spoiled by no fewer than 10 grammatical or typographical errors in the piece that made it almost unreadable without getting vexed.
As the Monitor often laments, print media is struggling. And that is truly sad. But there are still those of us readers who cherish newspapers and believe in their importance. I count myself as one. As part of that last bastion of passionate and loyal newspaper readers, I will join the cadre of previous letter writers in expressing that your readers deserve better accuracy and editing of the stories that run in your newspaper. While all your readers may not care or agree, I expect many of us are tiring of the misspellings, missing words or inaccurate jump pages that seem to occur almost daily.
Your subscribers want to see the Monitor survive. We show our love through the renewal of our subscriptions each year. How about showing us some love back through better editing and proofreading?
SCOTT METZGER
Hopkinton