[Leica] RIP, my newspaper

[cummer at netvigator.com (H&ECummer)]

Hi Luggers,
Here in Hong Kong, we get a feed of the NBC nightly news every morning at 
7:30am on one of the local TV stations.
I have watched with amazement over the last 5 days that there has been no 
mention of the death of Lee Kwan Yew - Singapore?s first and longest serving 
PM -
an influential adviser to Deng Xiao Ping on the opening of China, and a 
stalwart supporter of US involvement in Asia. I finally emailed NBC Nightly 
News and asked why? Of course I have heard nothing back - Bill Clinton and 
Henry Kissinger attended the funeral so there could have been a recent US 
?Hook? to report on it.
Strange - very strange. Of course BBC had extensive coverage with in depth 
reporting. They are a wonderful resource - even if Jeremy Clarkson is gone 
from ?Top Gear?. 
Howard

Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2015 14:31:50 -0400
From: Tina Manley <tmanley at gmail.com>
To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
Subject: Re: [Leica] RIP, my newspaper

When I think of "dumbing down", I think of NPR.  I have been so
disappointed in their news coverage lately that I even wrote to the general
manager of the Charlotte station.  The new "chatty" style of delivering the
news where the newscasters all talk back and forth, joking and laughing,
reminds me of FOX.  I told him that they were alienating all of their older
listeners (the ones with the money to support NPR) and advised them to use
BBC instead of FOX as role models.  He actually wrote back and agreed with
me.  He said everybody at the local level is upset about the changes but
they are all coming from the national level and they can't do anything
about it.  He actually used to work for BBC so he knew what I meant.

I can't stand to watch local or national news on television (there is
nothing worse than 4 or 5 people sitting on a couch and all talking at the
same time about nothing) and have depended on NPR for my news.  Now I have
a Kindle set up to broadcast BBC all the time.

Old Foggie,

Tina