[Leica] RIP, my newspaper

[Jim Nichols]

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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