Croatian newspapers do publish an occasional letter to the editor, but not a single paper in the country has a regular section with such letters. Not one. Even a cursory look through sundry encyclopedias available on the World Wide Web is sufficient to see that the institution took shape in the middle of the Eighteenth Century. That is, two and a half centuries ago. Regular sections with letters to the editor became widespread by the end of the Nineteenth Century. In short, the Croatian newspapers are at least a whole century behind in this regard. The way things look at the moment, this important feature of democratic discourse between literate citizens will be missing in perpetuity in this country. I keep suggesting a regular section to the editors of several Croatian newspapers, but to no avail. Not a single one of them has responded to such a suggestion, either. Not once. And who am I to tell them how to run their own business?