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Michael Pollak mpollak at panix.com
Mon Jan 17 21:34:09 PST 2000


On Mon, 17 Jan 2000, Doug Henwood wrote:


> >LBO and WFMU compete for
> >reader-listeners through the market (if not exactly on a capitalist
> >basis).
>
> Sure, but it's incredibly difficult. The odds are against us, and the
> likes of us go under all the time.
>
Absolutely true. But you're interesting. Whereas PBS is constrained by its government funding not to be partisan or controversial. Under which conditions, government funding can't solve the blandness problem.

Perhaps government funding works better in France, since they take partisanship to be an unavoidable fact of life, and les epater des bourgeoisie as proof that subsidy was necessary.

Michael __________________________________________________________________________ Michael Pollak................New York City..............mpollak at panix.com



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