Parents, Do Your Job

Hilary Rosen’s wish that artists make their clean CDs more compelling artistically so as to accommodate consumer “choice” all but confirms that she is far more concerned with the bottom line than with (a) the well-being of our youth and (b) artistic integrity (“Cleanups of CDs Don’t Clean Up,” by Geoff Boucher and Jordan Raphael, Dec. 9).

As to the latter, it’s pretty sad when a 10-year-old is more concerned about--and respectful of--an artist’s true creative intentions than is the president of the Recording Industry Assn. of America. And those “parental advisory” stickers? Why not just tape a piece of candy to the CD?

It is not incumbent upon Eminem, or any other artist, to tailor his music to a certain audience. It is, however, incumbent upon parents to guide their child’s developing musical taste.

SCOTT LENZ

Los Angeles