Outtakes

Where are the correcting mechanisms?

I’m not surprised that my letter hasn't run. The FT has extraordinarily little space for letters. Of course, they could be unconstrained for space on FT.com, but the site is so pitifully run compared to the hard copy newspaper that I suspect it never occurred to anyone at the paper they they could do something different with the website.

Considering the effectively unlimited storage capacity afforded by servers, mainstream media could publish far more letters as well as, of course, its own unused copy. For example, a reporter may write a good 2000 words. But solely for reasons constraints of the printed edition, the article is edited to 500 words. Why not publish the whole thing as an part of an expanded edition of the "paper?" Its "outtakes."