My periodic letter to CNN

Dear CNN,

I would like to personally thank you for devoting 1 1/2 hours of breaking news coverage to the wrapup of the Kingston courthouse shootings. I also appreciate that it was actually breaking when you covered it, and not after the fact (read: the last London incident, where we heard "there's reports of unknown incidents in the London Underground" for at least an hour from Nic Robinson while Fox was smoking your ass on the details.) And I'm glad that Aaron Brown was on the desk, because he's at his best during this situation (idea: trade him to ABC to anchor WNT, which tracks an older demographic, and move Anderson Cooper to the 9 CST slot, when young adults might actually want to watch the news. *awaits flames*)

Oh, and "The Situation Room"? Not so much. Why do you have Wolf anchoring that? That would've been a prime place to have Bill Hemmer in to generate some heat with Kyra. But wait, he jumped ship to Fox because you wanted to make him move to D.C. Sorry. But in any case, it's tinkering time. "American Morning" isn't completely unwatchable anymore, so maybe take some lessons there.

In any case, it was nice to see two local and stellar PIO and director types (Jennifer Johnson and Mark Gwyn) get some national airtime on your network tonight. So thanks for stepping it up on this one. And keep it up, please.

Your fan still (although London2 made me waver a bit),
-D