not all of them, doug. there are lists just as partisan in the other direction, such as the group that calls itself 'friends of kpfk' and refuses to disclose who they are, who funds them, and who supports them. this group is one of the sources of marc cooper's latest propaganda piece, which you posted to this list.
>I don't know what's been going on at KPFK, but if he's right (and I like
>Marc personally, think he does good radio, and take what he says on this
>stuff very seriously), then firing Schubb over the protest of the staff
>and replacing him with someone with no radio experience is a bit alarming.
he's wrong. schubb has done the same kind of things at KPFK that ultirce and co did at WBAI. now, he's asking for a hundred thousand dollar severance pay, a computer, and several other things.
cooper is doing a hitchins when it comes to KPFK. his left wing credentials are very suspect since he's allied himself with the KPFK reactionaries. he's gambled and lost. now he's busy confusing the issues, lying about them, and propagandizing for all he's worth. a quisling at heart, only interested in himself.
please bear in mind that cooper, schubb, et al, have been soliciting funds from listeners while the old pacifica board ran up a three million dollar deficit paying off their friends and trying to hold onto power. cooper and schubb knew this fact, knew that the money KPFK needed for its new transformer installation, operating expenses, etc., was not forthcoming from the old board. they solicited funds and ran the station while knowingly participating in what i assume a lawyer would term a kind of fraud. the legal issues are one of several things the new board is looking at as it goes about trying to set pacifica foundation back on firm ground.
cooper has a lot to hide, and a lot to account for which his propaganda pieces ignore.
>The Indy Media Centers are wonderful, I'm glad they're around and hope
>they'll multiply, but they're not the right model for a radio network with
>licenses in 5 giant metro areas. The challenge for Pacifica is to produce
>politically and culturally serious programming that's well-done and -
>sorry, this may sound scandalous - entertaining enough to appeal to an
>audience larger than the congregation.
how far do you suggest they go to appeal to a large audience? from what i can see, this (giving him the benefit of the doubt that he does not deserve) is cooper's problem, as it is a problem the Nation magazine has chosen to identify with. given the low level of current public awareness, trying to reach a lower common denominator leaves the informed with no place to go.
>Cooper can do that. I'd like to do that. I'm afraid the restoration of the
>status quo ante at WBAI won't do that. Utrice & Co. wouldn't have done
>that either, of course. We'll see.
doesn't amy goodman do that?
perhaps you can say what it will take to do that, doug. and get the message to the new board. i can certainly forward your ideas to the KPFK listeners advisory board (LAB), unless you'd like to contact it yourself.
>The financial crisis - and it's quite bad - is in no small part the result
>of the boycott.
and the boycott is the result of the old board and its shills. in KPFK land, people are sick and tired of KPFK trying more and more to sound like NPR. sadly, people who would have gladly given money to pacifica were forced to give it to the lawsuit instead.
>And also the spending on publicists and lawyers by the mediocrities who
>were running Pacifica. It's a fucking mess.
>
>Doug
it's a mess indeed. and mailers like cooper's, when the new board is reaching out to the staff at KPFK and to cooper, only makes it worse.
R