Do your readers care about a ‘hit’?

Sir,
I am a regular reader for more than a decade and take the liberty to question the wisdom of your headline ‘Man gunned down in professional hit’ last Sunday, covering about two thirds of the front page with the story.

This headline and the story do not in my opinion deserve such space and convey a twisted image of Limassol and Cyprus at large, considering that most of your readers are foreigners.
On Sunday morning I was checking on a friend and guest staying in a hotel here and was surprised during the conversation to hear that Limassol sounded like Chicago. My reaction was to answer ‘yes, sometimes it is very windy at night’.

On my way to pick him up from the hotel I got the Sunday Mail and understood that I was completely out of track and that Limassol was indeed Chicago.

Since you have almost a monopoly of the English printed press and you are not competing for readership, what is the need for this quest of the sensational?

I will not challenge the importance of the deceased but do you honestly believe your readers care? Again it is only my opinion, and maybe I am totally out of fashion.
Serge Yonan,
Limassol

We are not on a ‘quest of the sensational’. A professional ‘hit’ is news — it happened. Editor

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