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Hit the pause button, drop the remote and turn your radio down. It's time for another installment of cards and letters across the television/radio desk: Mike Koskiewicz: Your Sept. 23 column covering the mess at WLS-AM (890) was right on the money. This is a radio station that is self-destructing before our eyes. Jeannine Ratter: WLS has become the Ship of Fools. Don Wade and Roma should be glad to have gotten off before the ship sinks. Aaron Silver: Until ABC/Disney starts to lose money on the deal, there's no reason corporate bosses need to concern themselves with employee or...

If you are a Chicago area resident, you've probably heard about this incident on the Don and Roma call-in show on WLS.If not, you'll appreciate hearing it and perhaps you'll share it with others. It's quite moving. Here's what happened.Don and Roma's son is an F18 fighter pilot (and ex-Blue Angel and local Chicago celeb), who is stationed somewhere near Iraq now. An antiwar protester emailed Don and Roma stating that he hoped their son would die if the US goes to war against Iraq. It brought tears to Roma's eyes, but she still read this hateful email on the...

Deborah Rowe last night interviewed an international law professor who indicated that he has every intention of nominating Illinois Governor George Ryan for the Nobel Peace Prize; he has not finished the paperwork, but indicated he will do so before February 1.