Oh come on Twang!!!! What do you expect. Look at Schumann and Bonsu, there's peoples livelihoods and mortgages at stake here man!
In my experience the most you canhope istheyare fully aware (and they usually are) and are merely initiating conversation with the expectation that some readers will write in and have their thoughts printed on the 'Your Say' page. This way they can at least say it wasn't them who said itsmoking-devil
I once wrote in to cuss of Pope and they published it in the 'Pope on the Ropes' column. Maybe you should do the same regarding the matrixwith the added gain of wideningit's visibility-though this one sounds like it might bring the whole paper down as opposed to an individual employeeniceone.gif