Have any of you ever been so dissatisfied with something you got really angry about it?  ...So mad, you wanted to do something about it?  Well it happened to me recently.

Our local newspaper, the Beaufort, Gazette, changed dramatically.  Among the changes they ripped from the comics pages such cartoons as Andy Capp, Garfield, Snuffy Smith, Hagar, Gil Thorp, Wizard of Id and Dennis the Menace and replaced them with left-wing Non Sequitur, Doonesbury and other lesser-known cartoons.  Since then, many readers have voiced their opinion with letters to the editor to bring back the old comics, but we have heard ZERO response from the newspaper.  The editors are strangely silent on the subject.  Their silence amounts to holding their hands over their ears and loudly singing "La-La-La-La-La" in order to avoid hearing you, in hopes this issue will go away.

Well, here's a copy of my latest letter to the editor:

"I wrote a letter to you complementing the changes made to your newspaper.  However, I have not been happy with your choice of comics selected for the newspaper, so I wrote and told you so.  Since my letter I have seen several other readers requesting you restore the comics; to bring back Andy Capp, Hagar, The Wizard of Id, Garfield, Snuffy Smith and Dennis the Menace.  I have heard nothing from you, nor have I seen any action on your part to do anything about it.  Your total silence and disregard for your readers on this issue is troubling.

I'm sure you don't like losing subscribers but I have become dissatisfied and have canceled my subscription to the Beaufort Gazette after years and years of service.  Your "editor's eye" for strict attention to detail has been sloppy and your lack of attention to your readers is pathetic.  There need to be more than just changes to the comics to bring me back into the fold."

I don't normally voice my opinion and I usually let things like this slide.  But for some reason this issue really got my blood boiling.  With today's visibility of blogs, YouTube, MySpace and all the other outlets out there, maybe if the newspaper feels it in the pocketbook they'll pay more attention to their readers.