Your press release saying "Kanye West departed from the scripted comments that were prepared for him, and his opinions in no way represent the views of the networks." Serves to remind all of us why we need diversity in media ownership. Your network has a right to only air people who are willing to speak your words from their mouthes.

Has it occured to you, though, that this may be one of the reasons so many of your shows on so many of your networks have viewerships in the hundreds of thousands, while alternative media is starting to get viewerships and listenerships in the tens of thousands?

There was a time in this country that ownership of the media equaled control, because there were no other voices; you could pre-script a range of "acceptable" viewpoints and claim you're presenting diversity. You can't do that any more.