Write to CNN and the rest of the MSM.

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CNN

MSNBC

Faux

I know it won't make a lot of difference, but who knows? If thousands of people tell them how they feel, maybe, just maybe, they'll listen. Here is what I wrote to them (I substituted MSNBC or Fox for CNN when emailing them; minus the stuff about Leslie). Of course, the Katrina stuff doesn't apply to Faux, but I wrote it to them anyway.

Terror alerts are important. Yes. But it is very frustrating when a terror alert comes out and you guys drop every other story to talk about the terror alert 24/7. I don't think Wolfe Blitzer said a word about anything else during his entire show yesterday. There are other very important things going on like the DeLay indictment, the pending Plame case indictments, not to mention a whole host of other things that you guys never mention at all.

I was proud of CNN during Katrina. For the first time in a long time you dropped your usual MO and reported the truth about what was going on down there. Your anchors in the field and in the studio screamed at the top of their lungs about the atrocities until Bush finally responded. But that passion and honesty is gone again, and it makes me very sad.

Whatever happened to journalists like Edward Murrow and Fred Friendly? Journalists who were willing to risk their very lives to bring the American people the truth? America desperately needs journalists like that again. Whether or not you are up to that challenge will remain to be seen.

[TallahasseeGrannie]

1. Good letter

I am probably one of the least likely people on this site to see a plot behind every corner. Most of the time I don't have the mental energy to go that far.

But I said to my husband on Tuesday "Well, I wonder where the terror alert will be this week, with all this bad news for the administration?"

And they didn't disappoint me. But wow, talk about transparent!

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2. I used to be the same way.

But after seeing terror alerts come out every single time bad news came out about Bushco, I finally realized that coincidence was impossible.

I was born long after the days of Murrow and Friendly, but sometimes I dearly wish I had been around then to see what real journalists look like.

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