Dear Editor
Dear Editor The New Leader welcomes comment and criticism on any of its features, but letters should not exceed 300 words. Gun Control I am not a handgun owner; don't trust the things. But if I...
...I do own knives, matches, ropes, and electrical appliances—along with hammers, shovels, a geologist's rock pick, and a variety of other tools...
...But does Kitman apologize...
...Although I am not a member of the National Rifle Association, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep etc., or any other group, I sure do wonder at your logic...
...Well, Kitman didn't call it right, for Silverman no sooner arrived at NBC than he issued a proclamation condemning the ratings business...
...If America is any indication, French youths will become even more calm and thoughtful, and less political, than they are today...
...Wilkes Barre, Pa...
...No, Kitman makes fun of Freddy ("New Man at NBC," NL, September 11), and incredibly, manages to suggest that the RCA head is a dope for forsaking the garbage of yesteryear...
...But if I follow correctly the logic of Peter Stuart's article ("Shooting Down Gun Control," NL, September 11), especially the final quote?The only thing that may get us another gun-control law is another assassination"—I certainly hope the next assassination does not involve knives, fire, garroting, or electrocution...
...Now that's what I call chutzpah...
...He criticized Silverman, specifically, for catering to boob tastes—hence, ratings—by the introduction of such shows as Happy Days, Laverne and Shirley and Charlie's Angels...
...One of the things writers like Stuart always seem to overlook is the number of handguns in the nation that are not used for crime, and the number of crimes that utilize other weapons...
...Lee Robinette Silverman Some people are never happy...
...In a column he wrote a few months ago ("The Silvermanizing of Television," NL, February 13), he attacked Freddy Silverman for doing all sorts of rotten things to television and its audience...
...But 1 think the author should have pointed out that what is happening in France has been happening in all Western industrialized nations, with the possible exception of Italy...
...Tacoma, Wash...
...Harold Cherry Laid'Back Youth John E. McCarthy seems to be saying that French youth are calmer now than they were a decade ago ("France's Young Come of Age, NL, September 11...
...Now Freddy, the modern Typhoid Mary, is about to embark on the last of his appointed rounds [to NBC], spreading his form of infantile paralysis, and if all goes according to plan, the Silvermaniza-tion of commercial television will be finished by 1980...
...Having found the counterculture and radical politics ineffective in the long run, the young are resorting to a more conservative, "laid-back" outlook...
...At ABC we discovered that he was nothing but a Trojan Horse, a dangerous kid disguised in adult's clothing...
...I try to use them wisely, but if they were ever used in a criminal manner I believe I would try to punish the person who misused them...
...I have no doubt this is true...
...not the tool itself, or all other owners as a class...
...And he went on lo write: "What makes Freddy Silverman different is that he has sold us out and he has no guilt...
...Does he eat his words...
...Take your TV critic, Marvin Kitman...
...his fall schedule, moreover, has very little of the T&A and greasy kid stuff that made him infamous...
...New York City Alfred J. Spanner...
Vol. 61 • October 1978 • No. 21
