Don’t Water Down Stern

A thank you to Claudia Puig for her article on Howard Stern and KLSX’s editing practices (“Stern Editing Elicits a New Kind of Shock,” March 17). There seem to be two camps regarding Howard: either you love him or you don’t. Watering him down makes neither happy.

We have listened to Howard Stern since his first day in New York on WNBC radio in 1982. Since our move to Southern California, we have continued to listen because we had missed him terribly and we wanted to hear all of the shows.

People who are offended by Howard’s show are not going to be less offended because some segments are omitted. They’ll just have less material to be offended by.

And to Howard: Although we know that there must be a viable reason that you are keeping quiet about this, we are really disappointed that you are allowing this to happen. We feel cheated by KLSX and hope that this is a temporary situation. We have a lot of respect for you, Howard, and we’ll always be loyal. Please don’t let them do this to you--or to us.

SHELLY and HOWARD

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