Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/03/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Who? Clarkson? ;-) Peter On 30/03/2015 03:43, Jim Nichols wrote: > 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 >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- =========================================================== Dr Peter Dzwig