With Trial, FM Finds Jacko ‘Dangerous’

The New York Daily News spoke with local radio programmers to ask if they are having second thoughts about playing Michael Jackson’s music now that his child molestation trial is gearing up. “There are people who think it’s a sensitive issue,” said Rick Martini, program director of WNEW-FM Mix 102.7. “We play a Jackson song pretty much every day. There is only one song we have taken out, called ‘PYT (Pretty Young Thing).’ Some people feel Michael Jackson has tarnished his image. But I have found those people to be a minority. The bottom line is, if you like the music, you like the music.”