Vice goes (temporarily) letter-less; pleads for "real letters from real people"

Vice magazine, which says its readers aren't taking the trouble to write them good letters anymore, suspended its letter-to-the-editor page for a month.

"You know what? No letters page this month. You know why? Because we aren’t receiving enough real letters. We mainly get emails now, and people don’t think when they write emails."

The magazine, which got its start in Montreal (now based in Brooklyn, New York)and grew into an international publishing phenomenon, says it used to get "great letters... in decorated envelopes along with goofy little tokens, tchotchkes, gizmos, and gifts inside".

In protest of this state of affairs, we are suspending the letters page for one month. We would like to formally do a wee curtsy and invite those among you, readers, who still have most of your fingers and know how to hold a pen, to send us actual, tangible letters. You can use a typewriter too, or a computer and then print it out....
Anyway, we aren’t trying to get onto some “we are slaves to machines” stuff but damn can we just get some letters on paper again please? Or at least don’t send us an email until you’ve read it through twice and decided whether or not you really need us to read it. Chances are you don’t.