Tell TV News Anchors to Focus on Stories that Matter. No more JonBenet!

[Ian David]

Tell National TV News Anchors to Focus on Stories that Matter



Last week, guess which story topped the national evening news on ABC, CBS, and NBC? JonBenet Ramsey. Who was the big guest on Nightline and the Today Show? JonBenet Ramsey’s father. What story made front-pages of America’s newspapers, including the New York Times. You got it.

It wasn’t the war in Iraq or the tenuous truce in Lebanon, or even 10 million kids here at home who lack health insurance. It was JonBenet.

We’re so disgusted with “journalism” in America that we’re suggesting an action today that we’ve never suggested before.

Contact the News Anchors at ABC, CBS, and NBC, and tell them we’ve had enough JonBenet by signing the petition to the right.
Send this petition to:

* Brian Williams, NBC
* Charles Gibson, ABC
* Katie Couric, CBS

As professional journalists, I cannot understand how you can justify your decision to make the murder of JonBenet Ramsey the number one story last week on your evening broadcast.

Sure, it's an interesting mystery and a terrible murder, but under what criteria of professional journalism could it possibly merit being the top story in America last week?

There's the war in Iraq, which continues to kill Americans and Iraqi civilians alike, including six-year-olds like JonBenet. There's the fragile truce in Lebanon. There's global warming, Darfur, the budget deficit, the health care crisis at home, the upcoming elections, and so much more.

Please, get your journalistic priorities straight.

Signed by:
(Your name)
(Your address)
http://action.truemajority.org/campaign/reportrealnews

[liberalmike27]

1. I can't agree more

Sadly I just tuned in to Air America and guess what springer is talking about? Jon Benet. Christ!!

I tuned in to Stephanie Miller.

[Atman]

2. And they'll all say "but people keep tuning in to watch, so we show it!"

They forget that people tune in to watch the news, and news watchers tend to tune in regularly because, well, NEWS is supposed to be the stuff that is currently happening in our world which somehow impacts our lives -- be it by uplifting us, informing us, educating us, warning us, updating us. We don't expect to see day after day of coverage of trivial pop culture matters. IOW, Katie, Charles and Brian, we aren't tuning in night after night because we LIKE this shit your cramming down our throats, we're tuning in because where the fuck are we supposed to tune in if we want to watch NEWS? Of course we watch it each night on every news program -- because you're all showing the same thing in concert! How fucking stupid are you people?

Oh...is that your phone ringing? Better take that call from the CIA Media Services...there might be a kidnapped blonde girl case breaking right now, and we sure wouldn't want that NEWS to be missed by your salivating viewers.

[Ian David]

3. It's an excuse for them to show soft-core kiddie porn...

little girls slutted-up, prancing on stage.

It's what the Republickers like.

[followthemoney]

4. Watching the private interest owned media is a waste of time.

If you missed all the reports on JonBenet Ramsey you would have missed nothing. The line from Saturday Night Live is appropriate here: "Nevermind."

Is the MSM so gullible that they put this out as news? Or are they so cynical that they believe Americans are so gullible

[Ian David]

5. Two words: Richard Jewell. n/t