To The Editor & Citizens of New Fairfield ...
This will serve to advise readers that I resigned as an Op-Ed columnist for the Citizen News after my column was 'over-edited' once more by the editor.
I can't imagine what you could do worse to a writer than to over-edit and thereby contort his or her column and then publish the resultant distortion without advising that writer. The latest 'over-editing' was done a few weeks ago and was far from the first time the editor chose to pull the rug out from under me. Unfortunately, this has been a periodic occurrence over the Common Cents' 6+ years of publication.
Were I to delineate the history of 'over-editing' in the 6+ years that I have authored Common Cents the text would most likely be edited, so I shall not.
Shoud anyt of you wish additional information regarding my resignation, kindly e-mail me at doug1016@aol.com. Please put "Common Cents" in the header since I delete unknown senders' messages because of virus concerns.
Writing for the Citizen News has been a little slice of heaven for the past 6+ years.
Doug Thielen
