I thought that considering the amount of discussion here about AT that H&H had 'censored' the post bag by:
a: not putting horse abuse as a higher priority in the placement of letters on the letters page
B: by making more of Badminton going than AT issue
Shows that they aren't reporting the full picture - particularly no 'response' letters published in regard to M. Ph. column/comments on the AT issue in last weeks issue. I find it hard to believe that NOT ONE letter was received at H&H in regard to MP comments !!!
As letters editor, I can confirm that we did not receive any letters that commented directly on Mark Phillips's column. We ran both of the letters we received about Amy Tryon. All letters to the Editor are acknowledged by email if anyone did write in but didn't receive a response, please do let me know.
While we cannot use every letter submitted for publication, we do try to use them in ratios that reflect the number of letters we have received on each topic. Also, the position of the letters on this topic did not have anything to do with their order of importance.
We would urge forum users to write to the letters page whenever they wish to. Email HHletters@ipcmedia.com
well I sent you a letter regarding the rip-off paltry amount Puffa are donating to the AHT in regard to Strangles - it should be £20 and not £2 and I didn't receive an email acknowledgement of my letter.
The email address on your website for 'letters to the editor' is not the one you've quoted above.
I finally caught up with last weeks H&H and was absolutley disgusted by their coverage of the AT affair. I expected a pretty neutral report - i.e. it pulled up lame, but not the 'it locked on a fence and she couldn't stop it' rubbish I read instead and as for the Mark Phillips column - I can only believe that neither of the 2 authors actually saw the incident themselves as if they had there is no way they could have written what they did.
If you would like to see the video showing what actually happened so that you can write a balanced report PM me and I'll email you a copy. It got removed from youtube and I got told off for putting it there
I know. I wrote to H&H regarding MP's comments but didn't get email acknowledgement of my letter (as apparently I should have done) so may try again - probably a bit too late now but even so.