Surprisng Response

It seems as if my email might have been at least read.

Quite surprising that it was even passed on past the generic news@kare11.com email address.

Email from Mike Pomeranz.

Thank you for your feedback. I agree. It was a judgment call...and I agree it was right on the line.
I appreciate your concerns and I'll pass it along to our producer.
Again, thanks for the feedback and thanks for watching.
-best,
Mike

Mike Pomeranz
KARE 11 News
8811 Olson Memorial Highway
Minneapolis, MN 55427
763-797-7336
mpomeranz@kare11.com

Thoughts I won't email Mike back with...

Now Mike, I didn't think that your making light of the story was that bad. Though it wasn't necessary, in the end my concern was airing a pointless story on a cussing Christian Bale in the first place. It just didn't seem to fit. Could I have understood your placement more if I took a look at your rundown? Sure but it's the fact that it made our mid-west prime time news cast and let's just say I'm about 92% going to guess that it won't even make TMZ and it's their job to broadcast that crap.

Here's a counter point. Though I think sometimes you guys run alot of garbage during the half hour you at least get me chatting with a good friend of mine-Paul-about the content of your broadcast and you still do get our viewership. So if that's all you need (viewership) you win, but if you ever had a passion and a desire to impact your viewers for the better you definitely lost.

So, nice to chat with you Mike. :) Tell your producers, directors and executives that if you can not fill 30, 60 or 90 minutes of newsworthy stories in a day then tell them you'd prefer to cut the time down to 30 at all times. Then, possibly you could create more features and newsworthy stories we'd all like to watch!