Cooper on KPFK

Michael Perelman michael at ecst.csuchico.edu
Wed Jan 30 09:06:26 PST 2002


I don't see any contradiction. Maybe I am dense. I never said that there was no place for him at Pacifica. To the best of my knowledge, he has not been told so by Pacifica.

However, he may have so soured relations that there may indeed by no place for him. Think of the examples of the star athlete (I am not calling him a star) who is so disruptive of a team that nobody wants him.

I prefer Dennis Rodman's performance to Cooper's.

On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 12:00:00PM -0500, Doug Henwood wrote:
> Michael Perelman wrote:
>
> >Cooper is an interesting duck. He is very good at producing shows that
> >air the left-liberal perspective. With respect to Pacifica, he is
> >abominable.
>
> Do you spy an interesting contradiction in this paragraph? He does
> good radio, but there's no place for him in Pacifica? Is it better to
> do tedious, hectoring, morally self-satisfying programs that appeal
> to no one but the hard core? Why?
>
> Doug

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