“ABC News Listens To Viewers’ Concerns”

Hey, you! Average American! ABC News is listening to you.

“ABC News Listens to Viewers’ Concerns About Iraq Coverage” is the headline on ABCNews.com. The story says:

“Over the last 24 hours, ABC News has been reading hundreds of messages sent in by viewers in response to President Bush’s claim that the media are undermining support for war in Iraq. Viewer opinions ran the gamut, but the vast majority believed the media were biased in their Iraq coverage.” Here’s a message board with 2,038 replies so far.

I hope ABC realizes that viewers who are upset with the coverage are likely to reply, while viewers who are satisfied with the coverage are unlikely to…

> Update: 10:57am: An e-mailer says: “This morning GMA had their much-touted ‘news you can use’ segment. They talked about responses, saying that we the viewers wanted GOOD news about Iraq and our troop’s efforts. So when they get past the pre-packaged piece, and go live, what does the correspondent talk about? The Iraqis complain to us about lack of power, lack of water, and most of all, security. GMA asked, but they clearly didn’t get the message. Fools.”