A number of letters to the Readers Write column of this paper were about certain writers using this paper for a soapbox, (Yes to letters, no to soapbox”), April,22.
On Monday of this week a headline in Newsday caught my eye. It read: “Signs facing a ‘spy’ charge.”
In his weekly Sunday press conference Sen. Chuck Schumer is upset about “spying billboards” being installed in NY which have the ability for a corporation to track consumers information off of their cellphones.
In the age of digital technology that we live in today with theft of information becoming so common, we are constantly cautioned not to give out too much information about ourselves as it may be used for sinister purposes. We are time after time given this advice about Facebook where members are only too willing to divulge numerous bits of info about themselves.
However, one letter writer in the Williston Times doesn’t appear to have received this message.
In the past three and one half years Mr. Frederick R. Bedell has used this newspaper for as his personal soapbox as Mr. Beecher’s letter of April 22 suggests.
During those three and a half years a search of Mr. Bedell’s name reveals he submitted almost 170 letters. The reader can do the math as to what that equals in a year. However, he has on a rare occasion had two submissions in the same day.
He has a certain knack of interjecting himself into just about any article he writes. He can be writing on the homeless and he informs us he was homeless. I’m sorry to hear that.
He informs where he works, that he walks with a cane, that he is Grand Knight of the local Knights of Columbus and on and on and on.
So much information that I and the average reader, I haven’t read any of his writings in a year, can write a biography on him just by the information he gives freely to this journal.
And I bet it is not going to stop.
Bill Viggiano
Williston Park
