ABC7 Los Angeles

What’s going on ? All of a sudden I have to sign / log in ? Never had to do that before—NOT 1 TIME & you didn’t recognize my email and or password ? Ok , I know everyone’s stressed, but come on !!!!!i And even though I created per your request , a new account , I still am unable to stream on my iPhone at this time. I will NOT attempt to try and log in again, as either this is a joke or you don’t care for 3rd generation LA born and raised Americans to tune in to channel 7. No problem. I don’t have time or patience for this nonsense (which makes absolutely NO SENSE TO ME WHATSOEVER. Take care and be healthy and safe....i had a great 50 or so year run with channel 7.

It’s taken me a year of watching ABC7 to realize why it seems so unprofessional and amateur—the sound is just so bad. 1) The levels bounce around like crazy. I’m constantly adjusting the volume because it’s too quiet, then too loud, etc. Ever heard of a Mixbus compressor? 2) Some news story have NO narration at all. Just the ambient sounds of shots. Who does that? 3) The sound guy clearly smokes too much weed. During one of Newsome’s monologues the volume would drop randomly. Then it would be too loud. Then too quiet. I could hear him trying to find the right level. Then there was a delay on Newsome’s voice! A straight up psychedelic echo on the governor’s voice. I’m sure he was laughing it up but I was trying to listen to what was being said. It’s kind of important. 4) This would be forgivable if it happened once in a while, but it happens on every live stream. I leave it on while I work at home. It’s truly the most annoying thing ever. It is unlike any other news app on Roku and Apple TV—the sound issues make it seem cheap and unprofessional compared to CBS / ABC / NBC news apps.

This used to be my go to news app for local news. The reporting was fair and unbiased for years, which made it informative and a pleasure to read. Unfortunately that has changed over the past year. I’ll give a couple examples. Writers such as Will Steakin post negative article after negative article about Donald Trump. Will doesn’t even attempt to hide his bias. The latest example is a Donald Trump for President ad which led Will to do presumably hours of research to find out where the images from the ad came from. Will, sorry but using stock photos which came from outside the US is not breaking news. If you want to write about something newsworthy, investigate whether it’s true Joe Biden needed a teleprompter to answer questions in his past two press conferences. My second example relates to police use of force incidents. This app has used misleading headlines to suggest police used excessive force when clearly the investigation was in its infancy and all facts were not in. Here’s a newsflash for you guys. Police force never ever looks good. Striking someone with a baton, spraying chemical agents in their face, or discharging a firearm at them will never look pretty. Unfortunately in a sliver of police encounters, force becomes necessary due to the actions of others. If you want to be fair, do an article on how many police uses of force you can find on compliant individuals. It will be nil. And encourage the public not to fear the police, but just be compliant and let the police do their job so everyone can go home safe.