Ed, ABC tonight, New Year’s eve, featuring entertainers the Jonas Brothers. What is this? For the 5- to 12-year-olds to stay up while all the parents are asleep? The Jonas Brothers take four strokes on their instruments, ask any musician, it’s the back up band that plays all the instruments. Who are they kidding? It’s phoney.

Ear Plugs

Most of the music being fed to the teenybopper crowd is absolute crap. But it’s a vicious cycle. The kids keep buying it — so the music industry sees no reason to change the formula. They’ve trained a generation to think that crap is actually good music.—Ed. Note