What is the the writer of the letter to point out to the public?
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When I began reading the Letters to the Editor every day, in 1997, it was for all the reasons a new intern at a newspaper would do so. Some of it was vanity. I was always looking to see if something I wrote warranted a letter, angry or praiseworthy, that something I wrote caused someone to put pen to paper or fingers to keyboard. I also wanted to get to know my new community of Austin, Texas; I figured hearing what the concerns of its citizens were day by day was a good, efficient way to do that.Later, it was about self preservation as a reporter. I had a very good track record about not needing to get corrections posted in the paper, but there was always a chance some letter writer would point out a mistake in a piece I wrote, or take me to task for forgetting a key fact. That didn't happen much, but I always watched for it, vigilantly.