Quebecor — my corporate parent for all of one week now — owns a heckuva lot of papers (you can check out the variety of papers here). Earlier today, an editor at one of those papers received the following e-mail from a reader. I pass it along without comment:
After reading your paper I thought you might have an opening for a proof-reader, but since half of this town can't read anyway I guess spelling, grammar or even an interesting story are not all that important.
This, in our business, is the kind of letter, incidentally, that keeps us going. Thank you, H.P.!
Huh. Who knew trolls existed on paper, and not just the internet? I guess the two aren't that different after all!