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Subject: [Leica] RIP, my newspaper
From: pdzwig at summaventures.com (Peter Dzwig)
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2015 15:13:38 +0100
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Just joking. :-)

Peter

On 30/03/2015 15:07, Jim Nichols wrote:
> Lee Kwan Yew
> 
> Jim Nichols
> Tullahoma, TN USA
> 
> On 3/30/2015 8:40 AM, Peter Dzwig wrote:
>> 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
>>>>
>>>>
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Dr Peter Dzwig                          



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