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LETTERS, Page 8TV Sleaze
Thank goodness for people, like Michigan housewife Terry
Rakolta, who have the guts to take a stand against TV sleaze such
as Married With Children (VIDEO, March 20). I find it incredible
that your critic Richard Zoglin thinks advertiser boycotts against
tasteless fare would make TV "blander." Equally unbelievable is his
simpleminded suggestion just to turn off the set. Once a person has
seen something vulgar on the screen, it's already too late.
Carol E. Peterson
Clarksville, Ind.
Rakolta is the Ayatullah of TV. If she doesn't like a program,
then no one should be allowed to see it. I don't care for tabloid
TV, so I don't watch it. But my husband and 15-year-old twin
daughter and son love Married With Children. I may start paying
more attention to its advertisers and try to use their products.
Colleen Garland
St. Louis Park, Minn.
Why does Zoglin find it ironic that advertisers have become
"guardians of quality" on TV? Everyone knows that whoever pays the
bills calls the shots. Viewers who protest the sleaze that has been
shown on TV are only trying to influence the people who can make
changes. If that is misguided, why are advertisers paying
attention?
Diana Perkins
Dallas
We don't need to put a brake on anything. Morton Downey Jr. is
very popular right now because he exhibits a TV style not seen
before. He, Geraldo Rivera, Maury Povich and the passel of other
brash TV talk-show hosts will have their day, make their millions
and then be replaced by different personalities and new types of
programs, whatever they may be. To say these shows engender bad TV
is ridiculous. TV by nature is bad; this recent deluge is just a
variation on the theme. When trash TV ceases to be marketable, it
will stop being profitable, and only at that point will we see a
shift in programming. Can you imagine what we will be subjected to
next?
Martin Simson
Los Angeles