Sunday, January 23, 2022

Editorializing by AL TV stations


EMAIL TO ALABAMA BROADCASTERS ASSOCIATION
From: Rob Shattuck <rdshatt@aol.com>
To: mnelson
Sent: Fri, Mar 18, 2022 5:01 pm
Subject: For Alabama Broadcasters Association - editorializing by Alabama TV stations
Dear Dr. Nelson,
I could not find on the Alabama Broadcasters Association website an email address for the Association, and I have chosen to send this email in care of you as the Educational Advisor to the Association.
Additionally, I consider your being Dean and Professor of the College of Communication and Information Sciences at the University of Alabama to be advantageous for pursuing the purpose of this email.
I have spent several months pressing Alabama TV stations about their public service editorializing practices, including whether their policy is that their television station does not undertake a public service editorializing function
The negative impression I have received is that Alabama TV stations choose not undertake public service editorializing. The basis for my negative impression is set out at Editorializing by AL TV stations.
The purpose of this email is to inquire of the Association what the sense of the Association is about the extent to which Alabama TV stations undertake a public service editorializing function. If the Association's sense is that some TV stations do undertake that function, and some do not, I would be interested in learning which TV stations do and which do not.
If my impression that Alabama TV stations generally do not undertake a public service editorializing function is correct, also I would like to learn why.
Is it because of financial and business considerations that the TV stations do not editorialize?
Is it because the TV stations do not have qualified staff who are capable of carrying out a public service editorializing function?
Are there other reasons?
Thank you for whatever consideration the Association gives to this email and such response that the Association is able to give me.
Sincerely,


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