TedKoppel1

Like almost everything about the internet, it delivers extraordinary gifts and also produces incredible dangers. The dangers associated with the "narrowcasting" you reference is that it tends to trap people in an echo chamber where they are constantly bombarded by points of view with which they already agree. I would never suggest that narrowcasting has no value, but I believe that the old fashioned news "broadcasts" that attempted to focus everyone's attention on the most important issues, without regard to a partisan point of view, still have enormous value.

Congo. Incredible as it is, more than five million people have died in Congo as the direct or indirect result of a war that's been going on now for more than five years. There's an unbelievable degree of unawareness in this country.

Good. I speak German. I'll look it up. Thanks

Let the networks know. If they really came to believe that the majority of viewers wanted hard reporting and real substance (and that you would stop watching if you didn't get it), they'd give it to you.

We have to get back to focusing news coverage on issues that are most important to a general American audience; rather than focusing as much as television news does these days on giving the public just what it wants.