IT’S BROKE, FIX IT

An intelligent person looking for enjoyment and mental stimulation from L.A. radio music might as well not even own a radio (“What’s Wrong With the Record Industry (And How to Fix It),” by Robert Hilburn and Chuck Philips, Oct. 12).

I skim the dial daily looking for the impossible: a station without a stranglehold formula, and a station with more than the same 50 songs on its playlist. Listener-sponsored stations provide the only haven for me and the only relief from the Stepford Stations of L.A.

When commerce overrides artistry, everyone suffers. Maybe with enough suffering at the top, these corporate types will return to giving people like myself what they really want, as it was when FM first began.

STEVE RUDE

Arcadia

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It remains to be seen whether corporate America will listen, but until they do, we’ll all continue to suffer at the greedy hands of “The Grinch Who Stole Music.”

Regardless, I do hope that Hilburn and Philips have hired 24-hour protection!

DIANE K. WILLIAMS

Studio City