You are assuming it would have ended up a few degrees to the left. I don't think that was on the table. Look I don't like how it ended up. But the people who were overthrown were hacks who also wanted to destroy Pacifica in their own way. I have no objection to professionalism. But if that management team had not been overthown Marc Cooper would have been fired within a couple of year (which admittedly would have been more time than he got)., Ian Masters would not have had the years he had running his show. Neither of them would have survived NPRization. Doug's show would have been gone a decade sooner than it was actually forced of WBAI. It would not have been a left wing NPR. Just an NPR branch catering to slightly more diverse musical tastes.
On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 10:46 AM, Doug Henwood <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Mar 19, 2014, at 1:41 PM, Louis Proyect <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 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. > > Exactly. I've been around Pacifica for over 20 years and watched it slide > into deep chaos, madness, and irrelevance. Ignorant fools who can't talk > and have no idea what they're talking about holding forth in the most > unengaging ways. To those idiots, having people who know their subject and > how to talk about it is some sort of debased "professionalism," and against > the spirit of the "community." If I want to hear what the "community" > thinks, I can eavesdrop on the subway. > > Doug > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > -- Facebook: Gar Lipow Twitter: GarLipow Solving the Climate Crisis web page: SolvingTheClimateCrisis.com Grist Blog: http://grist.org/author/gar-lipow/ Online technical reference: http://www.nohairshirts.com
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