RADIO

Radio talk show hosts around the country are asking listeners to boycott Exxon products to protest the way the company has handled the Alaskan oil spill. Mike Siegel of KING-AM in Seattle reports receiving more than 1,000 letters with cut-up Exxon credit cards. At Exxon, a spokesman responded that “we share our customers’ concern for the environment and sincerely hope they will continue to support us.” He said a boycott of Exxon service stations would unfairly harm many private dealers. Earlier this year, Siegel and other radio hosts organized a letter-writing campaign to protest the proposed 51% pay raise for members of Congress.