In her Dec. 2 letter, Jen Winberry celebrates radio stations for offering diversity to their listeners. I'd like to know her definition.

If she defines diversity as repackaging the same boring formats and cliched lyrics as many times as consumers will stand it, then she's dead on.

Further, Ms. Winberry reports that a small percentage of stations are owned by Clear Channel. Funny, its Web site cites that it reaches 54 percent of adults ages 18 to 49 in the United States daily. If that's a small percentage, what would constitute a large one?

But the most troubling part of her letter states, apropos of Mr. Matlin's Nov. 25 letter: "You shouldn't be complaining because you are a serious minority."

Since when did minorities lose their right to complain or mobilize? Isn't that what democracy is all about? You would think that a political science major (such as Ms. Winberry) would have some background in minority viewpoints.

Nearly every type of music she lists as popular was once an underground movement that was eventually co-opted by the music industry to commercialize and exploit it.

If that had never happened, we'd all still be listening to fugues and symphonies, and she'd be complaining if people wanted to hear jazz.