[Leica] RIP, my newspaper

[Peter Dzwig]

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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