THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT 
              Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: Sunday, April 30, 1995                 TAG: 9504280038
SECTION: COMMENTARY               PAGE: J4   EDITION: FINAL 
TYPE: Letter 
                                             LENGTH: Short :   27 lines

LISTENERS

Guy Friddell writes in his column ``Here's hoping radio magpies don't create a loony bird'' (April 27) that ``among (G. Gordon) Liddy's listeners are demented barbarians who bombed a nine-story building and with it, scores of precious lives.''

The listening habits of the bombing suspects have not been reported anywhere else in the media, so how does Mr. Friddell know this?

MICHAEL Z. McNANEY

Virginia Beach, April 27, 1995

mack(AT)infi.net MEMO: Editor's note: Friddell agrees that a better phrase would have been

``among Liddy's listeners are the likes of demented barbarians who

bombed a nine-story building...''

by CNB