a snotty email i sent to the news director at our local ABC affiliate

[datasuspect]

Quality newscasts?



*Melodramatic anchorpersons

*Overload of "hard-hitting" church news

*Taking editorial discretion to sometimes hilarious extremes.


Please rethink your editorial policy. I can understand wanting to report "feel good" stories, but reporting two stories about church activities at the top of the newshour seems kind of, how can I put it, SILLY in the light of all the stories about murders, shootings, robbery epidemics, and general malfeasance on the part of inept local politicians and other public servants you must probably notice in both local newspapers.

And get Shawn Murdoch to ease up on the "personality." I want the news, not his cloying homespun affect. REPORT THE NEWS, don't melodramatize it.