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Lanier, Thanks for the protest against the disgusting content of TV news. I guess it's up to us to find and spread the GOOD news. Your list serves as a reminder that we have a lot of work ahead of us to break through. I am saving your post as an example of what we are up against. Now, how about if we try to come up with a list of 10 PD=related topics we WANT to hear and see on TV? I'll start: 1. DBS enables Knoxville, Tenn. surgical patients to regain control of their PD-battered lives. 2. Thanks, IVAN On Wed, 14 Apr 1999 11:58:14 -0400 Lanier Maddux <[log in to unmask]> writes: >Attn Jane Koenig, and others commenting on this post, >The following is a letter that I sent to the local TV news >departments: >Dear Mr. .............. >I would like to share with you the TOP TEN reasons I watch your local >news broadast: >10. I like to see people being led into and out of court in >handcuffs. >9. I like to see buildings which have been ransacked and had their >doors >or windows smashed by burglars. >8. I like to see trucks or railroad cars upside down and dumping >hazardous substances into a creek. >7. I like to see video of a wooded area where a nude and dismembered >body or a newborn baby in a plastic bag was abandoned. >6. I like to see homes that have been burned to the ground and a TV >reporter is there asking the homeoners "How do you feel?" >5. I like to see injured people with bloddy bandages being carred on >a >strecher with a TV camerman running alongside taking pictures. >4. I like to see cars that have been in headon collisions, with close >up >color pictures of bloodstained upholestry. >3. I like to hear about children that have been secually abused > >2. I like to see nice full-color closeups of people that have been >tortured or beaten > >1. And the NUMBER ONE thing I like to see on local news, is body bags >(with bodies in them) being caarred up from the banks of a river or >from >burned down homes! . > >Sorry I sent the prev mail before I finished it. > >Lanier Maddux Chattanooga Tn ^^^^^^ WARM GREETINGS FROM ^^^^^^^^^^^^ :-) Ivan Suzman 49/39/36 [log in to unmask] :-) Portland, Maine land of lighthouses deg. F :-) ********************************************************************