Well, Maybe KABC Does Need Tune-Up

As a 35-year-old white male, I am the listener KABC wants. I seldom listened to KABC until the past two years, when they added jingles, dropped the octogenarians and got rid of the evil classical bumper music. I prefer the new, younger sound of KABC.

Will you put away your crying towels and stop throwing ink bones to Michael Jackson? Jackson was legendary, but so was Willie Mays when he played for the Mets. The problem was, Mays was dropping fly balls in his old age. Jackson’s problem was, 35-year-old white males couldn’t relate to his hoary citations, his lame puns and his tedious topic selection (waxing loquacious about China’s most-favored-nation trading status used to make me jab my FM button faster than you can scream Howard Stern).

THOMAS DORAN LOONEY

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I was struck by the reference to Michael Jackson’s Rolodex as being “second to none.” The problem was that his Rolodex was memorized by practically every listener. Day after day, week after week, month after month, the same wheezy limousine liberals from politics, journalism and entertainment gave the same predictable answers to Jackson’s same predictable--and affected--questions.

ROBERT McARTHUR

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