"Please flood your bishop's office with complaints about this selection and let them know that the time for the do-it-yourself-liturgy is over."
Why?
The bishops don't give a rat's posterior what the laity want. They know better.
These guys have nothing but disdain for traditional liturgy. Trautman's selection is obviously the will of the majority.
Complaints to bishops are filed in the round file and are not worth the time it takes to write them.
If it seems like I have a bad attitude regarding the bishops, it is because I do. In my current estimation most American bishops rank well below crooked used car salesmen and ambulance chasers.
I think you meant to reply to the original poster.
Like you, with few exceptions, I think contacting these pathetic and heretical (and too often flaming homosexual) USCCB bishops is worthless.
They don't care about the Holy Eucharist, and don't care about our eternal salvation. In fact, they want to alienate us from the Blessed Sacrament, by diminishing the Doctrine of the True Presence. They disdain private devotions - they focus on the horizontal aspects of the Mass to distract us from the vertical aspects, and use the Mass for the rejection of all else.
I participate in the Mass - the supreme sacrifice - in the proper sense, and what I do to keep company with God on my own time is not their business.
"Complaints to bishops are filed in the round file and are not worth the time it takes to write them."
I've written literally hundreds of respectful letters of complaint to bishops over the years and never once received an encouraging reply.
The few who bother to write back usually explain how "busy they are with other more important matters" - yeah, like interfaith activities or ministry to gays and lesbians.