Reply #3: my email to WJLA, ABC-7 on the matter

[northzax]

Sirs,

I am very dissapointed in WJLA's decision to continue sponsorship and providing advertising for the "America Supports You Freedom Walk" this Sunday. According to the lead story on your website this morning, anyone not 'pre-registered' cannot participate, or even attend the concert, given with taxpayer dollars on federal land. In seven years of living in DC, I have never come across an event on the Mall that is not open to the public, and to have a local news operation 'sponsoring' and advertising this event is disturbing, to say the least.
You have a fine news operation, and fine programming, but knowing that you use this department to support the closing of streets and parks, paid for with my tax dollars for an unprecendented private partisan event, leads me to the following decision: if you continue to sponsor this event, I have no choice but to delete WJLA from my channel line-up. I will probably miss, for a while, waking up to GMA, I can always get Alias and Lost on DVD, I suppose, my fantasy footbal team will suffer from missing MNF, and my nightly nightline fix, but I can no longer financially support a news organization with such poor judgement.

I will watch, on Sunday, to see your reporting, I hope you cover the fact that the streets of DC were closed to DC residents, that the Mall was sealed off and the remaining media banned. Otherwise, goodbye.

Sincerely,

northzax