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- LETTERS, Page 8". . . And furthermore, I don't like . . ."
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- Of the roughly 50,000 letters we get each year, about 1%
- criticize TIME on various points. In the last ten months of
- 1988, we received 336 letters of reproach that were not aimed
- at specific stories. There were 26 letters complaining of bias
- of one sort or another, 16 claiming that there was a decline in
- quality of writing or news coverage, 4 that we were
- pornographic, 16 that we were too liberal, 3 that we were too
- American, 104 decrying the high number of ads, 92 specifically
- annoyed by the quantity of cigarette and liquor ads, and 75
- miscellaneous complaints -- TIME's print is too small, the ink
- smears too easily, "blow-in" cards make flipping through the
- magazine like "opening a garbage can."
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