Cost-Cutting by TV Networks

Your front-page article about cost-cutting and its effects on the television networks news programs was of timely interest to me. The reason is that within the past year, I have virtually eliminated television as the source of any of my news because I can no longer tolerate the depths to which it has sunk.

The cute banter between the actors reading the news, the ridiculous weather reports with their comedians and the lack of any concern for accuracy finally proved too much to take.

I can understand the need of business to make money, and if the majority of the public wants to rely on that nonsense television calls news, so be it. Luckily, I have the ability to read, and the printed media are what I choose to use for my information about the world. Obviously the print media have their faults as well, but at least it is the information that is competing for my attention, not some moron trying his best to win a smile contest.

To the Walter Cronkites, Charles Kuralts, Dan Rathers and other real newsmen, I hope, along with you, that the pendulum will swing the other way. Until then, my quarter gets spent on the newspaper.

BRUCE HOWELL

Lancaster