Friday, March 29, 2024

Getting AL TV stations to do better in 2024 elections

Email to Susana Schuler and Brendan Kirby
From: Rob Shattuck <rdshatt@aol.com>
To: Susana Schuler <susana.schuler@hearst.com>; brendan.kirby@fox10tv.com <brendan.kirby@fox10tv.com>
Cc: Sharon Tinsley <stinsley@al-ba.com>; bsbutler@ua.edu <bsbutler@ua.edu>
Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2024 at 06:26:18 PM CDT
Subject: Getting AL TV stations to do better in 2024 elections
Dear Susana and Brendan:
I cannot shake wanting to press Alabama TV stations to do better in how they perform their journalistic obligations to their viewing public, particularly during the next seven months of the 2024 elections. Be An Alabama Rootstriker* with Rob Shattuck: Getting AL TV stations to do better in 2024 elections (al6thcongdist-ihaveuntiljan13.blogspot.com)
The two of you have previously replied to me, and I am sending this email to you to see whether you (or an associate of yours in Alabama TV news broadcasting) is willing to make a response to what I say in my blog entry Be An Alabama Rootstriker* with Rob Shattuck: Can retired AL TV news personages help improve AL TV news journalism? (al6thcongdist-ihaveuntiljan13.blogspot.com). (For the record, I have not received any reaction or response to what I say in the preceding blog entry. Further, Ms. Sharon Tinsley, President of the Alabama Broadcasters Association, sometime ago advised me that the Association is not a venue for my trying to discuss how well Alabama TV stations are performing their journalistic obligations to their viewing public.)
Maybe I will give up on this after the 2024 elections are over. In the meantime, I almost consider it my civic duty to press Alabama TV stations on their journalistic obligations during the next seven months. I am not sure what I will do next, but, knowing me, I believe I will find ways to persist on this.
Thank you.
Sincerely,
Rob Shattuck

Email to WAFF general manager Jama Killingsworth
From: Rob Shattuck <rdshatt@aol.com>
To: jama.killingsworth@waff.com <jama.killingsworth@waff.com>
Sent: Friday, April 19, 2024 at 06:46:42 PM CDT
Subject: All of us Alabamians doing better in our civic obligations
Dear Jama:
Please pardon another email from me.
Below is an email l sent yesterday to Susana Schuler and Brendan Kirby, regarding "Getting AL TV stations to do better in 2024 elections".
That email said I did not know what I would do "next" in the seven months remaining in the 2024 elections.
This is my "next," which I am directing to you because you are on the Board of Directors of the Alabama Broadcasters Association.
Please consider WAFF pursuing an undertaking that is initiated by an on-air statement by WAFF to its viewers in the vein of:
WAFF believes that we are living in a time during which there has been a collective failure of civic responsibility, and this has been having deleterious consequences in our national politics. WAFF believes this failure has occurred at the levels of institutions and leadership in Alabama and also at the citizen level. The failure includes us at WAFF. To try to mitigate the deleterious consequences for our 2024 elections, WAFF will include in our news programming in the coming months numerous segments (2 to 5 minutes long) in which WAFF will make commentary and have appropriate outside parties make commentary, motivated by civic responsibility, to improve the politics of our 2024 elections.
I hope the foregoing suggestion inspires soaring aspirational thoughts on your part.
I would love to talk to you about this.
Regardless, thank you for reading this.
Sincerely,
Rob Shattuck
Mountain Brook

Email to Mike Wright and Kay Norred
From: Rob Shattuck <rdshatt@aol.com>
To: Mike Wright <mwright@waaytv.com>; Kay Norred <knorred@wvua23.com>
Cc: csmith@al.com <csmith@al.com>
Sent: Friday, April 19, 2024 at 07:12:30 PM CDT
Subject: All of us Alabamians doing better in our civic obligations
Dear Mike and Kay,
I have not heard from you in a while.
Please read the emails I have sent to Susana Schuler, Brendan Kirby and Jama Killingsworth that i have posted at Be An Alabama Rootstriker* with Rob Shattuck: Getting AL TV stations to do better in 2024 elections (al6thcongdist-ihaveuntiljan13.blogspot.com).
Then please read the below email I sent to Cameron Smith related to his opinion column at Cameron Smith: Bipartisan fears of civil war stoked in human soup - al.com.
Then, I hope the emails inspire soaring aspirational thoughts on your part regarding your TV stations.
Sincerely,
Rob
----- Forwarded Message -----
From: Rob Shattuck <rdshatt@aol.com>
To: csmith@al.com <csmith@al.com>
Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2024 at 06:54:51 PM CDT
Subject: Bipartisan fears of civil war stoked in human soup
Dear Cameron:
Please consider the following questions that are prompted by your opinion column Cameron Smith: Bipartisan fears of civil war stoked in human soup - al.com.
Let me use three things you say.
First, you say with regard to January 6th, "Those who committed crimes should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law."
Further you say, "America’s genius is a society that agrees to solve our conflicts without bloodshed."
In connection with the foregoing, you say, "If the polling is to be believed, Trump has convinced two thirds of the GOP that he was the rightful winner. Yet he left office, and we haven’t had a war. Either Republicans don’t really believe Trump, or they’re solidly dedicated to the civil resolution of political conflict."
Here are my questions:
1. Do you think a major contributing factor in the problem is the extent to which the extremes on the two sides, with the complicity of their political leaders, control our politics and political discourse, and that a significant majority in the center is sidelined and cannot bring about compromise solutions? Be An Alabama Rootstriker* with Rob Shattuck: Can the two sides talk? (al6thcongdist-ihaveuntiljan13.blogspot.com).
2. Do you think Alabama's institutions and leaders are failing in their civic responsibility that go along with their standing in Alabama and are failing to talk to Alabamians about what is going on? Be An Alabama Rootstriker* with Rob Shattuck: A time for AL institutional respect and trust (al6thcongdist-ihaveuntiljan13.blogspot.com). I particularly call your attention to the Alabama legal profession in this regard. Be An Alabama Rootstriker* with Rob Shattuck: Interim Alabama report to ABA Task Force for American Democracy (al6thcongdist-ihaveuntiljan13.blogspot.com).
3. Do you consider the criminal cases being prosecuted against Trump to be proper and appropriate under what you say that, "Those who committed crimes [related to January 6th] should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law."?
Thanks, Cameron, for whatever attention you can give to my questions.
Sincerely,
Rob Shattuck

Email to Alabama Reporter's Bill Britt, Josh Moon and Susan Britt
From: Rob Shattuck <rdshatt@aol.com>
To: bbritt@alreporter.com <bbritt@alreporter.com>; jmoon@alreporter.com <jmoon@alreporter.com>; sbritt@alreporter.com <sbritt@alreporter.com>
Sent: Sunday, April 21, 2024 at 09:07:59 AM CDT
Subject: All of us Alabamians doing better in our civic obligations
Might I have a conversation with you about what I am trying to bring about during the next six months, per Be An Alabama Rootstriker* with Rob Shattuck: Getting AL TV stations to do better in 2024 elections (al6thcongdist-ihaveuntiljan13.blogspot.com).
Thanks Bill, Josh and Susan.
Rob Shattuck Email to Business Council of Alabama
From: Rob Shattuck <rdshatt@aol.com>
To: cfranklin@bcatoday.org <cfranklin@bcatoday.org>; khope@bcatoday.org <khope@bcatoday.org>
Sent: Monday, April 22, 2024 at 06:47:12 PM CDT
Subject: All of us Alabamians doing better in our civic obligations
Dear Ms. Franklin and Ms. Hope,
I solicit the Business Council of Alabama to participate in the endeavor set out at Be An Alabama Rootstriker* with Rob Shattuck: Getting AL TV stations to do better in 2024 elections (al6thcongdist-ihaveuntiljan13.blogspot.com) for Alabamians, at all levels ("institutions"; political, business, academic, and community leaders; and citizens), to exhibit augmented civic responsibility during the coming months in the 2024 elections.
I hope the BCA will seriously consider what it can do.
Sincerely,
Rob Shattuck
Mountain Brook Email re Alabama economics professors and civic responsibility
From: Rob Shattuck <rdshatt@aol.com>
To: clshook@uab.edu <clshook@uab.edu>; kmpalan@ua.edu <kmpalan@ua.edu>; nlz0003@auburn.edu <nlz0003@auburn.edu>; stjones@samford.edu <stjones@samford.edu>; cgarrity@montevallo.edu <cgarrity@montevallo.edu>
Cc: cfranklin@bcatoday.org <cfranklin@bcatoday.org>; khope@bcatoday.org <khope@bcatoday.org>; Mike Wright <mwright@waaytv.com>
Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2024 at 06:40:51 PM CDT
Subject: Alabama economics professors and civic responsibility
Dear UAB Collat School of Business Dean Shook; UA Culverhouse College of Business Dean Palan; Auburn University Economics Department Chair Ziebarth; Samford University Department of Economics, Finance, and Quantitative Analysis, Chair Jones; and University of Montevallo Stephens College of Business Interim Chair Garrity:
This email is in furtherance of my endeavor that is set out at Be An Alabama Rootstriker* with Rob Shattuck: Getting AL TV stations to do better in 2024 elections (al6thcongdist-ihaveuntiljan13.blogspot.com), for Alabamians, at all levels ("institutions"; political, business, academic, and community leaders; and citizens), to undertake augmented civic responsibility during the coming months in the 2024 elections.
I am developing a proposal for how I think Alabama economics professors can participate in, and contribute to the objective of, the foregoing endeavor, and I will follow up with you in due course.
Thank you very much for reading this email.
Sincerely,
Rob Shattuck
Mountain Brook

Email to ABC33/40 Pam Huff
From: Rob Shattuck <rdshatt@aol.com>
To: pamhuff@sbgtv.com <pamhuff@sbgtv.com>
Cc: shannon.isbell@wbrc.com <shannon.isbell@wbrc.com>; todd@aldailynews.com <todd@aldailynews.com>; rick.karle@hearst.com <rick.karle@hearst.com>; Susana Schuler <susana.schuler@hearst.com>; brendan.kirby@fox10tv.com <brendan.kirby@fox10tv.com>; jama.killingsworth@waff.com <jama.killingsworth@waff.com>; Mike Wright <mwright@waaytv.com>; Kay Norred <knorred@wvua23.com>; rmartin@cbs42.com <rmartin@cbs42.com>; Baylor Long <blong@hearst.com>; Jon Anderson <janderson@starnesmedia.com>; Sharon Tinsley <stinsley@al-ba.com>; bsbutler@ua.edu <bsbutler@ua.edu>
Sent: Saturday, April 27, 2024 at 04:52:23 AM CDT
Subject: Can retired AL TV news personages help improve AL TV news journalism?
Dear Pam:
Earlier this year I emailed you Can retired AL TV news personages help improve AL TV news journalism?
This week you announced your retirement from ABC33/40.
In your heartfelt announcement (Veteran ABC 33/40 News Anchor Pam Huff announces retirement (msn.com), you said, "I am not quite sure what I am going to do next, but I am ready for a new adventure."
Right at this new adventure start for you, I urge you to read Be An Alabama Rootstriker* with Rob Shattuck: Getting AL TV stations to do better in 2024 elections (al6thcongdist-ihaveuntiljan13.blogspot.com), and proceed to seize every day from now until November 5th to strive for Alabamians, at all levels ("institutions"; political, business, academic, and community leaders; and citizens), to undertake heightened civic responsibility in the 2024 elections.
For inspiration, please consider Judy Woodruff "pausing" her PBS NewsHour anchoring duties more than a year ago and travelling around the country seeking solutions in a divided America.
Judy Woodruff: Seeking Solutions in a Divided America | Next Avenue
Judy Woodruff Reports on Her Next Chapter
Please keep in mind that, after November 5th, all may be too late for having and practicing civic responsibility.
Thank you for reading this.
Sincerely,
Rob Shattuck
Mountain Brook Email to ALGOP
From: Rob Shattuck <rdshatt@aol.com>
To: john@algop.org <john@algop.org>
Cc: Sharon Tinsley <stinsley@al-ba.com>; bsbutler@ua.edu <bsbutler@ua.edu>
Sent: Monday, April 29, 2024 at 08:46:59 AM CDT
Subject: Controversy over Campaign for Democracy Group ad
Dear Mr. Wahl:
As I understand, Campaign for Democracy Group, a Gavin Newsom connected organization, purveyed the ad set out at Gavin Newsom on X: "Alabama’s abortion ban has no exceptions for rape or incest. Now, Republicans are trying to criminalize young women’s travel to receive abortion care. We cannot let them get away with this. https://t.co/gHbYJYlEXk" / X (twitter.com).
As I further understand, ALGOP sent a letter to Alabama TV stations complaining about the ad, and Campaign for Democracy Group responded with a its own letter to the TV stations, per Gavin Newsom on X: "The Alabama Republican Party has sent us a cease and desist letter for this ad -- we must be doing something right. Deny all you want, but it won’t hide the truth: you are trying to criminalize women who seek reproductive care. The AL @GOP should spend less time writing… https://t.co/REIR94UsX6" / X (twitter.com)
In 2022, I complained that Alabama TV stations were failing to fulfill their journalistic obligations connected to the political ads that the TV stations run for payment of money to the TV stations. Be An Alabama Rootstriker* with Rob Shattuck: Local TV stations, journalism ethics and political ads (al6thcongdist-ihaveuntiljan13.blogspot.com).
My criticism has been more general than just political ads, and I am undertaking to get Alabama TV stations to do better in the 2024 elections, as set out at Be An Alabama Rootstriker* with Rob Shattuck: Getting AL TV stations to do better in 2024 elections (al6thcongdist-ihaveuntiljan13.blogspot.com).
I invite ALGOP to join with me in trying to get Alabama TV stations to do better in connection with the 2024 elections.
I suspect that ALGOP is not generally in favor of Alabama TV stations performing their journalistic obligations better in the 2024 elections, but I offer this opportunity for ALGOP to show me wrong.
Thank you.
Sincerely,
Rob Shattuck
Mountain Brook
[for filing in Be An Alabama Rootstriker* with Rob Shattuck: Getting AL TV stations to do better in 2024 elections (al6thcongdist-ihaveuntiljan13.blogspot.com)]
Email to Deans of UA School of Law, Cumberland School of Law,  Jones Law School and Miles Law School
From: Rob Shattuck <rdshatt@aol.com>
To: wbrewbak@law.ua.edu <wbrewbak@law.ua.edu>; blakehudson@samford.edu <blakehudson@samford.edu>; ccampbell@faulkner.edu <ccampbell@faulkner.edu>; contact@mlaw.edu <contact@mlaw.edu>
Cc: Brannon Buck <bbuck@badhambuck.com>; Terri B. Lovell <terri.lovell@alabar.org>; Jennifer Buettner <jbuettner@birminghambar.org>; mckinney@watsonmckinney.com <mckinney@watsonmckinney.com>; suzanneduffey@mc-ala.org <suzanneduffey@mc-ala.org>; flatta@burr.com <flatta@burr.com>
Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2024 at 05:17:03 AM CDT
Subject: 2024 elections -- rule of law and weaponization of justice system
Dear University of Alabama School of Law Dean Brewbaker, Samford University Cumberland School of Law Dean Hudson, Faulkner University Thomas Goode Jones School of Law Dean Campbell, and Miles Law School Interim Dean Agee (c/o contact@mlaw.edu),
This email is in furtherance of my endeavor that is set out at Be An Alabama Rootstriker* with Rob Shattuck: Getting AL TV stations to do better in 2024 elections (al6thcongdist-ihaveuntiljan13.blogspot.com), for Alabamians, at all levels ("institutions"; political, business, academic, and community leaders; and citizens), to undertake augmented civic responsibility in the 2024 elections.
Thus far, I believe, the Alabama legal profession has failed its civic responsibility in connection with the 2024 elections. This failure is indicated at Be An Alabama Rootstriker* with Rob Shattuck: Interim Alabama report to ABA Task Force for American Democracy (al6thcongdist-ihaveuntiljan13.blogspot.com).
At the national level, UA law school Professor Joyce Vance participates on MSNBC to try to help viewers understand about the rule of law and weaponization of the justice system.
I seek law professors in Alabama who will speak on Alabama local television about the rule of law and weaponization of the justice system.
I am contacting Alabama TV stations to take up the idea, and I solicit your help in finding Alabama law professors at your law schools who are willing to participate in this.
Thank you very much for reading this email.
Sincerely,
Rob Shattuck
Mountain Brook

Email to Shelby Institute for Policy and Leadership
From: Rob Shattuck <rdshatt@aol.com>
To: fes@stjohnfirm.com <fes@stjohnfirm.com>; mbrandon@law.ua.edu <mbrandon@law.ua.edu>; dsusnara@ua.edu <dsusnara@ua.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, May 1, 2024 at 06:58:52 PM CDT
Subject: To Shelby Institute - an Alabama leader is needed now to speak about the 2024 elections
Dear Shelby Institute for Policy and Leadership Executive Director Finis E. St. John IV, Academic Director Mark Brandon, and Program Director Daniela Susnara:
I think Alabamians are in need of an Alabama leader who can and will speak to them about the 2024 elections in a way that puts the interest of the country ahead of partisan political interest.
I think Senator Shelby might be just the right person to do that.
I am trying to get Alabama TV stations and other "institutions" (political, business, legal, academic, and community) and their leaders, as well as citizens, to undertake augmented civic responsibility in the 2024 elections. My effort in this regard is set out at Be An Alabama Rootstriker* with Rob Shattuck: Getting AL TV stations to do better in 2024 elections (al6thcongdist-ihaveuntiljan13.blogspot.com).
I will include this email to the Shelby Institute for Policy and Leadership as part of my endeavor.
Thank you for reading this email.
Sincerely,
Rob Shattuck

Email to WKRG
From: Rob Shattuck <rdshatt@aol.com>
To: VRainer@wkrg.com <vrainer@wkrg.com>; MyStory@wkrg.com <mystory@wkrg.com>
Sent: Thursday, May 2, 2024 at 06:02:34 PM CDT
Subject: Improving WKRG coverage of the 2024 elections
Please read Be An Alabama Rootstriker* with Rob Shattuck: Getting AL TV stations to do better in 2024 elections (al6thcongdist-ihaveuntiljan13.blogspot.com).
Thank you.
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Thank you.

Email to WVUA
From: Rob Shattuck <rdshatt@aol.com>
To: Kay Norred <knorred@wvua23.com>
Sent: Thursday, May 2, 2024 at 06:29:37 PM CDT
Subject: Another idea in my effort
Kay,
If I may, I would like to add another idea to what I have put together at Be An Alabama Rootstriker* with Rob Shattuck: Getting AL TV stations to do better in 2024 elections (al6thcongdist-ihaveuntiljan13.blogspot.com).
I think the WVUA editorial board should prepare its own summary of Donald Trump on What His Second Term Would Look Like | TIME for presenting to WVUA's viewers and invite prominent Republicans in Alabama to say on what points they agree and do not agree with what Trump says he will do in a second term.
Rob Email to WAFF, WAAY and WHNT
From: Rob Shattuck <rdshatt@aol.com>
Sent: Saturday, May 4, 2024 6:38:24 PM
To: jama.killingsworth@waff.com <jama.killingsworth@waff.com>; Mike Wright <mwright@waaytv.com>; news@whnt.com <news@whnt.com>
Cc: dale@yellowhammernews.com <dale@yellowhammernews.com>; news@256Today.com <news@256Today.com>
Subject: Dale Jackson and Huntsville TV stations doing better in their 2024 elections coverage
Dale Jackson has expressed an interest in Alabama TV stations doing a better job in their 2024 elections coverage.
Besides your Huntsville TV stations considering the suggestions I make in Be An Alabama Rootstriker* with Rob Shattuck: Getting AL TV stations to do better in 2024 elections (al6thcongdist-ihaveuntiljan13.blogspot.com), you should contact Dale Jackson to learn what suggestions he has.
Mecca Musick of 256 Today regularly appears with Dale on his show, seems quite intelligent, and maybe should be contacted as well for her thoughts about Huntsville TV stations doing a better job in their 2024 elections coverage.
Rob Shattuck_____________
Response email of Dale Jackson
From: Dale Jackson <dale@yellowhammernews.com>
To: Rob Shattuck <rdshatt@aol.com>; jama.killingsworth@waff.com <jama.killingsworth@waff.com>; Mike Wright <mwright@waaytv.com>; news@whnt.com <news@whnt.com>
Cc: news@256Today.com <news@256today.com>
Sent: Saturday, May 4, 2024 at 08:00:23 PM CDT
Subject: Re: Dale Jackson and Huntsville TV stations doing better in their 2024 elections coverage
None of this is true, Rob…
I said you could come one my radio show, leave me out of your sad clout chasing.

Email to WPMI
From: Rob Shattuck <rdshatt@aol.com>
To: news@mynbc15.com <news@mynbc15.com>
Sent: Sunday, May 5, 2024 at 07:41:47 AM CDT
Subject: Time magazine - "How Far Trump Would Go"
WPMI should tell its viewers "How Far Trump Would Go" (please read Donald Trump on What His Second Term Would Look Like | TIME) and ask prominent Republicans in Alabama which things they agree with that Trump would do.
(For filing in Be An Alabama Rootstriker* with Rob Shattuck: Getting AL TV stations to do better in 2024 elections (al6thcongdist-ihaveuntiljan13.blogspot.com).)
Thank you.
Sincerely,
Rob Shattuck
Mountain Brook
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