Irritants X

Let’s take a quick look back at the KFI situation. This time, it’s we who are being stooopid (perhaps I should add a few more o’s for emphasis). As you know, KFI and Bill Handel have taken and are going to be taking steps to make up for the unacceptable comment made on the May 14 show. We raised a hue and cry. They met with us. The meeting was very favorable, as was its outcome. Yet some members of our community are apparently still writing the station/Handel. That is probably forgivable. They might have gotten word late, or be unaware that the issue has been resolved, on paper, and action is imminent. What’s not acceptable, and stooopid, is communication that includes threats and untoward language. STOP IT if you’re guilty. Tell friends who are guilty to STOP IT. All it does is lead to the letter writers being reported to law enforcement and all of us looking bad, with no positive outcome possible.

While we’re on the media and stoopidity, check out the piece by Corina Knoll in the June 23 LA Times under the header “OUT THERE” titled “Some find Glendale smoking ban a drag” (www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-outthere23-2009jun23,3,676109.story). There’s no question that we’ve made a fetish out of smoking. But the baseless assertions made about Armenians and smoking make the author look ridiculous. Check out these doozies: