Cooper on KPFK

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Wed Jan 30 12:21:56 PST 2002


rhisiart at earthlink.net wrote:


>don't be modest about your limitations.

Right. I should follow your example and overlook my limitations completely!


>10 years ago was about the time the pacifica mess started. so you
>know nothing about pacifica before then? since i'm not familiar
>with WBAI, and Samori Marksman, i have to assume you don't know much
>about what pacifica was like 15 or 20 years ago.

I started listening to WBAI in 1967 or 1968, as an alienated and weird teenager in Joisey. In those days, you could hear Wagner's Ring, broadcast complete every Washington's Birthday, as well as drama and poetry. There's a schedule from the early 1960s up at the station, and it was even more highbrow then. I also remember some rather goofy and apolitical programming from Steve Post. I even remember when Bob Kuttner was a young sprite, doing the news. So while I don't know what Pacifica was like 15 or 20 years ago, I do know what it was like 30 or 35 years ago. Or at least WBAI. About which you know nothing, by your own admission.

Doug



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