# 'Letters to the Editor' legal issues

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/letters-to-the-editor-legal-issues/377657>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [October 24, 2006, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/letters-to-the-editor-legal-issues/377657 "2006-10-24T01:03:03Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\
**Post date:** [October 24, 2006, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/letters-to-the-editor-legal-issues/377657/21 "2006-10-24T14:15:31Z")

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I got my BS in Journalism from Kent State University (in Ohio), where almost all of my profs had worked for Ohio newspapers, and I have never heard this claim. My media law professor was a lawyer with the Beacon…you’d think he would have brought this up.

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**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\
**Post date:** [October 25, 2006, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/letters-to-the-editor-legal-issues/377657/22 "2006-10-25T16:13:36Z")

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She’s nuts. There’s no such law. I worked for a small Ohio paper before going to law school (the \*Morning Journal \* of Lisbon), and my editor would have laughed at the mere suggestion that he had to print every single letter. Sheer madness.

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