Issuing a Stern rebuke

FIRST, I want to commend you for doing a fine and thorough job on the Howard Stern story [“Stern Moves for a Bit of Space,” by Martin Miller, Dec. 11]. Second, I am shocked that Stern will be paid $500 million over five years for his brand of humorless garbage to be aired on satellite radio.

At age 51, you’d think Stern might have outgrown the I’ll-show-you-mine-if-you-show-me-yours mentality. I guess not. And what’s even more pathetic is that so many people tune in to his filth and consider it funny. The fact that he visits a shrink four times a week is indeed funny. What does he expect to learn, that he’s a severe case of arrested development?

I’m sure Stern laughs all the way to the bank, while his fans remain, where gray matter is concerned, in the debit column.

CONNIE RUTH

Yucaipa