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LETTERS, Page 4Radio Activists
Your ruthless put-down of radio talk hosts for organizing
protest campaigns is a case of paranoid megalomania (RADIO, May
15). You are simply a pot calling a kettle black. Call-in-show
hosts perform a vital service by keeping the feeling, if not the
actuality, of democracy alive. You make it seem that the fervor
originates with the broadcast hosts themselves, but they are only
stirring emotions that exist within their listeners, most of whom
are mad as hell about one thing or another.
Ronald A. Barney
Jacksonville, Ark.
The trouble with these shows is that virtually nobody phones
in with an opposing viewpoint because there really isn't one. Even
the folks who would never consider wearing a SAVE THE OTTER T shirt
have not been praising Exxon for spilling millions of gallons of
crude oil. Programs on the evils of Exxon or on the
preposterousness of a 51% congressional pay raise have too obvious
a bogeyman to provide any controversy or entertainment value.
Freddy Mertz, Talk Show Host
WABC Radio
New York City