Couldn't help myself...

["Bill O'Neill" <billo@shoreham.net>]

Sent this Letter to Editor of the Burlington Free  Press
www.burlingtonfreepress.com that should be published within the next two days,
accd. to the paper.  The ABC local affiliate just announced it's shuttering it's
local TV news operation as of this Friday......

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill O'Neill [mailto:billo@shoreham.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2003 12:33 PM
> To: 'pspeciale@abc22.com'
> Subject: A Sad Farewell...
>
>
> Here is a copy of my Letter to the Editor at BfreePress.com:
>
> Thanks for your story on Channel 22 corporate pulling the
> plug on the station's news committment.  I wish them the very
> best in revenue generation with whatever syndicated sitcom or
> info-mercial they assign to those coveted time-slots.
> Seriously, Burlington/Plattsburgh viewers deserve so much
> more than that.
>
> Does the reduction of our TV news choices by one-third
> reflect local market factors, as they would, no doubt, want
> us to believe? I believe that we are witnessing yet another
> ripple borne out of the wave of media deregulation.  The
> Burlington/Plattsburgh media market remains in the Top 100,
> nationally; it is incomprehensible that such a market
> position, an ABC network affiliation, synergistic competition
> from two other news teams, and emerging communications and
> news technologies can't yield viability for WVNY.  The last
> thing the Champlain Valley needs are fewer members of the
> Fourth Estate.
>
> Bill O'Neill
> Shoreham, Vermont
>