Cooper on KPFK

rhisiart at earthlink.net rhisiart at earthlink.net
Wed Jan 30 13:13:19 PST 2002


At 03:23 PM 1/30/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Michael Perelman" <michael at ecst.csuchico.edu>
>
> >The quantity of listeners is not of primary importance. More important is
> >to get radical minority views aired.
>
>Who cares if minority view are aired if nobody listens?

those are the only choices? either entertain or nobody listens?


>The point is to get the most radical viewpoints aired to the maximum
>number of people.
>I agree with Doug that you could get many non-leftists listening if the
>presentation
>is entertaining.

of course, people go for entertainment. guess the reason i don't listen to rush limbaugh, it al, is that i just can't stand being entertained.

according to business interests, sex and violence is entertaining and gets lots of attention from the public. maybe pacifica should throw a little of that into the mix.

what's entertaining about most radical viewpoints?

how would you package them?!


>A lot of non-rightwing people listen to talk radio for
>that very reason, but it gives those rightwingers a chance to propagandize
>every day.

is there a left wing equivalent of the entertaining phrase "feminazi"?

why hasn't all that available entertainment converted you and doug, nathan? or has it?

R


>-- Nathan Newman
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