Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/03/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Howard, The April 6 issue of Time magazine, which I received in my Saturday mail, has a full page devoted to him. Jim Nichols Tullahoma, TN USA On 3/29/2015 7:43 PM, H&ECummer wrote: > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >