>[I forwarded the thread on Pacifica to Marc Cooper, who responds:]
> In the end, many of the "principled" fights within Pacifica are
>not at all about ideology or "direction" of the netowrk. They are
>usually only about access to the air. Scratch beneath the surface of
>the "crises" at either KPFA or WBAI and what you will see is a grubby
>fight to stay on the air-- waged by contending programmers who cloak
>themselves in political purity. Frankly, most ALL Pacifica programs
>are mediocre and dreary-- be they of the "Free Pacifica" or the
>"corporate" Pacifica faction. In the case of KPFA, for example, the
>news department has been in the forefront of the "struggle." But four
>of their key people have been there roughly twenty years or more.
>Principle, shminciple.. they are fighting to retain tenure. My two
>cents.
I agree. I was already frustrated with the low quality of Pacifica programming when I lived in the SF bay area over 12 years ago. My NYC and later DC experience only increased those frustrations. I stopped listening to Pacifica several years ago, well before the currect "crisis" developed.
wojtek