What is the function of letters to the editor, both for a newspaper and for its readers?

Question

What is the function of letters to the editor, both for a newspaper and for its readers?

Answer 1

Some people like to express their opinions, and other people like to read those opinions. The Letters to the Editor section satisfies both.

Answer 2

Sounds like a homework question......

Anyway. Letters to the editors can mean that there was an article or column that was thought-provoking enough to engage the reader in writing the paper to express their views.In other words, they might've pissed someone off. But I never look at it that way. I see it as someone who wants to engage in a conversation, or just make a comment (much like this even).

For readers, it shows that a fellow reader had the guts to say their piece about something they read. To put it roughly anyway. But you get the picture.

Answer 3

Its a way of expressing your own views on a certain subject of your choice. If its well written and interesting the editor will publish it.