Letters of the week Antisocial media

Bob Pringle

Geraldine

CONGRATULATIONS and thank you to Steve Wyn-Harris for your commanding “View from the ridge” in this week’s Farmers Weekly, “Manners ought to maketh man behave better” (January 30).

This article deserves to be published on Stuff and in every newspaper publication throughout our country, so I set you the challenge of not being content with a publication in just the Farmers Weekly and or a few news publications. In fact, all radio talk-back hosts need it emailed to them.

Sadly, we as a society have regressed in our treatment of each other over recent years, courtesy of social media. Your expression has nailed it in a concise and simple manner, which I suspect took some time tweaking for that final draft. A genuine wordsmith!

Once again, Steve, congratulations and thanks for your brilliantly scripted article!

Keep up the good work.

PS One of my mother’s gems was: “You can think things but sometimes the best thing to say is nothing.”