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American broadcasters may consider British TV news programs "low key and kind of boring" ((PRESS, July 20)), but the viewers are presented with the news and nothing more. After returning from two years in England, I was dismayed by American news broadcasts with the anchor popularity contests, the cutesy chitchat, the endless stream of "live from" reports that impart little substance. The U.S. networks could learn some valuable lessons from British TV news.

Richard J. Kraus

Paradise Valley, Ariz.

To make next semester's courses easier, I have been following the upcoming presidential election, as I was advised to do by my professors. Unfortunately, I have learned little from the hours of TV news I have watched this summer. I was happy to read in Thomas Griffith's column that I have reason to be uninformed.

John Harvey

Mount Tabor, N.J.