Her Accent Isn’t the Real Problem

While I appreciate your article about Claudia Trejos (“Claudia Trejos Keeps Her Chin Up,” Aug. 16), you greatly miss the point of why people (such as myself) have complained about her to KTLA. It has nothing, absolutely nothing, to do with her having an accent: It’s about her (lack of) sports knowledge, and her inability to speak English properly. I have nothing against a woman sportscaster. There are several (at least five I can think of) who are quite capable. In fact, Robin Roberts and Jeanne Zelasko are two of the better sportscasters, period.

Shame that you thought the issue is her accent: It certainly isn’t.

--BARRY OPPENHEIM

Los Angeles

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I must commend Jose Cardenas for “creating” this human interest story. He spends most of his article painting Trejos as an underdog, expecting us to feel so much sympathy that we overlook her tremendous shortcomings. He also throws in the race card for good measure.

Come on, give the viewers and media critics some credit. We want excellence in our sportscasting, not just somebody reading the TelePrompTer.

Why even mention the accent? (That’s probably one of her most endearing traits.) It is when she mispronounces names (“Testaverda,” “Farver”) or stumbles while describing action clips that viewers are understandably frustrated. Indeed, she is cute and bubbly, but she utterly lacks the heart of a true sports devotee. That’s what sports viewers really care about: someone they perceive has sports coursing through their veins.

Ed Arnold, one of the classiest guys in all broadcasting, deserved a better successor.

--FRED CRANE

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