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Regarding the 2nd edition of “Live From the Bunker,” the FTVLive newsletter.

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Dear Scott:
Leave it where? Love your newsletter! The aforementioned is one of a long list of useless cable teevee anchor fillers.

Why do talking heads and anchors utter "right?" after just about every sentence? It's ubiquitous.

I worked in TV and radio news on and off starting in 1971 Detroit. I would rather endure a colonoscopy sans anesthesia than work in TV news today.

I'm your vehicle, baby! I've drilled down the demise of TV broadcast journalism, fingering Larry King and Ross Perot as the duo who forever altered the landscape more than 30 years ago with political campaigning via cable teevee talk show. Then Bill Clinton got behind Larry's wheel. I remember gobsmacked Larry, in the driver's seat of his old fart car with the front seat moved too close for my long legs, marveling at his sudden fame. (I was Larry's network radio news anchor in his nationally syndicated talk radio show 1979-1981.)

Then: O.J. which made CNN teevee stars out of nerd lawyers like Roger I-forgot-his-last-name, and Greta Van Susteren.

1996: MSNBC and FOX NEWS debut. As you're aware, MSNBC was a deal between Microsoft and NBC. Studio looked like a cavern. Soledad O'OBrien hosted a computer show! The late Jerry Nachman fronted a show with a set that looked like Perry White's Daily Planet office.

FOX honcho Roger Ailes singlehandedly greased the skids for the toxic, apolitically polarized cable teevee of today rife with blowhards shilling sophistry. Activism and not journalism.
Your fan of many years,

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Hi Scott....

A few more pet peeves to go on your list:

1.  A [insert negative] gone bad (e.g. robbery or drug deal) When is a robbery/ drug deal or other generic negative ever GOOD?

2.  A [insert noun] WORST nightmare!!  Too subjective, overused crutch phrase and another example of lazy          writing. 

3.  "Cops" say...  Too informal / generic and also lazy.

My $.02

Enjoying the website as always, and now the newsletter.  Thank you for your attempts to teach the young ones how to do it right and for keeping everyone else honest! 

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Hey Scott,

As a Black woman in this business I want take the time to thank you for what you do.

I have been reading FTVLive for years and I love the fact how you advocate for women in management positions and your calling out stations for their lack diversity.

I just wanted to say “thank you”, my guess is you don’t hear that very often.

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Scott,

I’m loving the newsletter! I hope you keep it going.

I spent 35 years in the business, the last 20 or so as News Director. I feel I left at the right time. I think the dancing anchors would have driven me insane.

Keep it up,