RADIO VIEWSREEL

New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 318, 27 July 1945, Page 16

RADIO VIEWSREEL

Sir,-I think it is about time somebody protested against the trash you rint in the column "Radio Viewsreel." It’s the one thing that spoils an otherwise excellent weekly. The one-sided way in which the comments are written shows a very high degree of intolerance for the ZB’s and more especially for jazz music. I can just imagine a group of old men or women, whichever the case may be, crouching over the radio picking yet another fault with the Commercial stations, then, after carefully noting a trivial fault, turning back to their beloved YA stations and swooning over So-and-So’s Prelude in "Y Minor," Opus 99,999, etc., etc. The result: an inch of sentences about the ZB’s, and a few inches of moonshine and drivel about the afore. mentioned Prelude, together with a long paragraph on their own personal reactions. In my opinion the Classical Bunk-lover gets too much of your space. Why not have a Jazz Commentator and do away with some of the old men! I would like to have heard their disgusted remarks when they heard that Bing Crosby topped the recently held Popularity Poll in America, and won the Academy Award. But what really prompted me to write this letter was their stupid article about the ZB request sessions. These sessions are not to their liking, so they elect themselves to the job of writing a few inches of a and place it in a prominent position. I ask them: why disapprove of the ZB’s' request sessions? They don’t have to listen to music they don't like. It’s athe public that wants it, not a group of bewhiskered old. behind-

the-times men.-

ALAN N.

STEWART

(Pukeuri Junction).

{Our oldest beard grows. on a chin of 22.. _ ‘*