QUIZ-SHOW SCANDAL

For years I have cussed at Howard Rosenberg’s cussedness and smart-alecky remarks in his TV columns, but “How Did the ‘50s Quiz-Show Scandal Ensnare a Tennessee Minister?” (Nov. 5) made me realize Rosenberg can be a great writer. I think he, or the remarkable Stoney Jackson, summed up television’s role in modern society with: The quiz-show scandals “produced a moral lassitude in America, and I think we are still feeling the results of the betrayal.”

TROXEY KEMPER

Los Angeles