On 3/19/14 1:10 PM, Gar Lipow wrote: > I was around KPFK when Marc Cooper was there. He was not a bad > journalist. But the "professionalizing" managers he supported wanted to > turn Pacifica into another NPR.
I never thought I'd say it but I would much prefer what Cooper wanted to what we have now. Or Utrice Leid for that matter. I happen to love radio and would give anything to have an NPR type station that was just a few degrees to the left. In some ways the crisis of the Pacifica station reflects the crisis of the left. The amount of stupidity I have seen put forward in the name of "anti-imperialism" with all the conspiracy theories, the groveling before the Kremlin, the failure to engage with clashing ideas, the indifference to evidence, the humorlessness--all of it adds up to what WBAI and these other stations sound like. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
