Creating the Next L.A.
What we need is for [senseless violence] to be a better organized, dynamic feature of the daily news. There should be a concerted, combined effort on the part of both electronic and print media executives to bring us a running account of deaths by gunfire.
Not so long ago, when our hostages were held in captivity, TV news programs opened with the number of days hostages had been imprisoned. Newspapers carried a front page box giving the same information. We were not allowed to forget the numerical impact.
TED LEPON Los Angeles
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Your new Next L.A. section is long overdue. Your awareness of the need to change and grow and improve is much appreciated.
JOAN LAVINE Los Angeles
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