Reply #133: You and info being are BOTH correct here. [View All]

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The beauty of it is that both your approaches are being taken up by people, in a two-pronged campaign. Having a diversity of letters like we all see in this thread is WUNNNNNNNNNNderful! First, it shows these are letters from real, individual human beings, and not astroturf cranked out via some predictable political machinery or astroturf. It's great that some of them mention specifics AND others don't. VOLUME DOES GET NOTICED. If they see a lot of these, somebody's gonna take notice. And all these different versions! It's GREAT! Even so, there are sufficient repeat references to such offenders as Wolf Blitzer and Candy Crowley that THOSE can't be easily dismissed, either. Also good to see Judy Woodruff and William Schneider singled out, as well. That shows 'em we're paying attention. It ALL helps. Every one of these. This is how you achieve critical mass and provoke positive change.

The important thing here is - this is not some isolated malcontent. This is a LARGE number of people. And, as it was when I was on the air, even just one letter or phone call is presumed to represent many more (depending on the size of the market). Here, though, the market is at least the US, if not other parts of the world. In this case, we have people writing in or complaining from ALL corners of the country, in many different ways about the same basic wrong-doing. The details help. The generalities help. It all helps. BELIEVE me.

I called yesterday to the comment line, and also sent an email. Usually I like to do both. Think I'll do it again today, and tomorrow.

This is all good, folks. These people need to hear an outcry - preferably a loud, multi-voiced, and sustained one. IF THEY THINK WE DON'T CARE, THEY WON'T, EITHER. At least now, they know a bunch of people care. More than 100 of them, just judging from this thread alone.

KEEP IT UP GUYS! We ALL need to be squeaky wheels! GREAT JOB!!!