Letter I wrote to KOMO regarding "Path to 911"

[ribrepin]

It is with a great deal of sadness that I write this letter. I have enjoyed my local news from Komo channel 4 for at least 20 years. I have always liked Kathi Goertzen and couldn’t wait for the Schrammie from Ken Schram. Steve Pool was my weatherman.

I have deleted your station from my channel box. I can no longer give my viewership to a station that aired that docudrama “The Path to 911”. I realize that the local station did not produce this program, but I have to do something. The network obviously doesn’t care about my opinion, perhaps the local station will.

Ruth Marcus of the Washington Post writes, “ABC's response to the pre-screening uproar was twofold -- both folds simultaneously inadequate and disingenuous. First, it removed the most flagrantly dishonest scenes: Bill Clinton's national security adviser Sandy Berger slamming down the phone on a fictional CIA operative pleading for permission to attack Osama bin Laden in the spring of 1998; White House counterterrorism czar Richard Clarke suggesting that the Monica Lewinsky scandal and the looming impeachment had sapped the president's willingness to "take chances" on getting the terrorist leader. Yet, these and other misleading insinuations remain, in subtler form.”

I will miss the local news and Grey’s Anatomy, but I can no longer watch a channel that puts on this type of partisan programming on the air. It was a four-hour campaign ad for the Republican Party.

Obviously the network doesn't care, maybe the local affiliate will.

[grizmaster]

1. I emailed my local affiliate WLNE

They never responded and I will never watch them again

[ribrepin]

2. I sent it by snail mail today.

So I haven't heard back. I figure the local affiliate will care more than ABC-GOP. I don't care if they write back or not. I won't be watching them.

[SeattleGirl]

3. Let us know if you hear back from them.

I'm curious to know what their response is (if any).

[Evergreen Emerald]

4. nice letter.

Couldn't have said it better myself. I am also curious to see of komo responds

[Pierzin]

5. thank you- keep us posted-

what is it they say about a single stone or the final straw, or something like that? good for you!