My letter to Dear Playboy

[cubfan23@earthlink.net]

At 3:08 AM -0500 5/8/03, Peggy Wilkins wrote:
>I'd be interested in knowing if anyone else has submitted comments
>about the June cover.  (And just for the record, I intended this
>letter as a statement meaningful to me personally, so please don't use
>it for a form letter -- this is probably obvious, but I did want to
>make sure I was clear in that.)


I already posted mine to the main PML, Peggy, but for those who 
missed it, this is what I sent to Playboy a couple of weeks ago:
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The decision not to place Christina Santiago on the cover of her 
Playmate of the Year issue is egregious. If this is part of the "new" 
Playboy philosophy - breaking a 40-plus year tradition of showcasing 
the Playmate of the Year on the cover in favor of a grade-Z reality 
"celebrity" who will be forgotten in 15 minutes - then I'm not sure 
this longtime reader wants to be along for the journey. Then again, I 
fear, that may be the point.

To devalue the bread and butter of the Playboy tradition, the 
Playmate, is to devalue the dedicated readers who have made the 
magazine a integral part of American culture for the past half 
century. I fear that the new editorial team is in the process of 
killing the patient in order to save it, and I plead with them to 
reconsider their current direction.

David Waldon
Los Angeles, CA 90038
cubfan23@earthlink.net