[Leica] RIP, my newspaper

[Jim Nichols]

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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