What do the following letters share? They were both submitted to the TV Guide, long ago, when ash still read that specimen of mass literature. She stopped for reasons other than being ignored.



RIVERA

Geraldo Rivera is a renegade in the worst sense of the word. His "constitutionally protected" partisan diatribes (particularly during the Clinton crisis), scolding posture, self-absorption, and overly dramatic delivery make his nightly show almost unwatchable and his documentaries positively insufferable.

Somebody should tell this guy to stop announcing and just talk.

As for the article itself, I have absolutely no interest in his personal life.



ALLY McBEAL

I stopped watching Ally McBeal nine months ago, weary of the cookie-cutter, formulaic episodes. Shock for its own sake produces tedious melodrama, and if the cover story (12/18 issue) is any indication, I’m not missing much.