Angry Viewers Are Writing the Academy (and Here's What They're Saying) LOS ANGELES - The producers of Sunday's widely criticized Academy Awards, Neil Meron and Craig Zadan, have paradoxically been on a victory lap. They chatted with reporters on a conference call on Monday about scoring Michelle Obama as a presenter. And Mr. Zadan told The Los Angeles Times on Wednesday, "We accomplished what we wanted to accomplish, so we're happy." Ratings were way up among younger viewers, he noted. As for the outcry that their show, with host Seth MacFarlane, was misogynistic and juvenile? They blamed the news media. "The TV press goes back year after year and complains," Mr. Zadan said. Maybe he and Mr. Meron haven't gotten around to opening their mail. The Carpetbagger's West Coast headquarters has been copied on a number of missives to Mr. Meron, Mr. Zadan and the Academy from angry viewers. Michael Ludmer, a past member of the executives branch of the Academy (he worked for 20 years at Universal Pictures), was one of the more genteel writers. Addressing his note to Hawk Koch, the Academy's president, Mr. Ludmer wrote. "More inept than the show's tasteless lapses in its material was the failure of ABC's "Oscar Night" management and staff to integrate into the ceremony the heritage of the motion picture industry." A letter from Jonathan Hertz, a 60-year-old pulmonary physician in Allentown, Pa., is more representative of the feedback we have received. "I know less than nothing about the movers and shakers in Hollywood," he said. But he was angry enough nonetheless to lick four stamps and send the following dispatch to Mr. Koch, Mr. Meron, Mr. Zadan and the Academy's Board of Trustees: Seth MacFarlane's attempts at humor during the Oscar program were atrocious and in terrible taste. The song/dance routine about women's breasts was offensive and misogynistic. Why not sing another number about men's penises or testicles? Also, with the current epidemic of gun violence in the U.S. and Newtown killings where 20 six-year-olds had their brains blown out, you cannot, cannot, cannot joke about the Lincoln assassination ("really got inside Lincoln's head"). Not to over-looked, Mr. MacFarlane put out anti-Semitic comments while stereotyping Jews in Hollywood. Mr. MacFarlane and you producers deserve rebuke. The Academy owes its Oscar night viewers a public apology for Mr. MacFarlane's ugly and offensive presentation. His humor was not "edgy" or "controversial." In 2013 when accepting diversity and racial/ethnic tolerance are imperatives in American society and its schools, I would call Mr. MacFarlane's comments deplorable. Sincerely, Jonathan Hertz, MD