"Most music lovers I know tend to be an eclectic bunch with an encyclopaedic erudition in all matters appertain to Popular Music & beyond"
The ones catered for by the media appear to be those who recognise no other form of music other than their own - as do those who choose what to present to the public.
there is very little indication of tolerance of folk music in Britain - the last sign of this was way back when the music industry watered it down and marketed it   
I do regard most pop music as vacuous drivel and make no apologies for doing so
I was as involved as any immature youngster in the pop-music of the day, but like Topsy, I growed!
Usually, I'm happy to live-and let-live as far as I am allowed to - not always easy when I have to carefully choose the shops I buy my jeans in for fear of having my ears bleed at the pipped music blasting out - banks, building societies.... whatever.
Any respect for the music of others must be a two-way street.
I welcomed the folk revival with open arms, both as a relief from the music industry and for the democratisation of music which gave us all a chance at artistic creation.
I too have a wide taste in music and do not regard it as having "tunnel vision" because I find myself not liking one particular type - to demand that I do is 'culture policing' of the worst kind - if I was a sheep, I'd stand in a field all day and eat grass.
Jim Carroll.