On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, Doug Henwood wrote:
> One of the distressing things about WBAI today is that there are so
> few young people flocking there. If it were healthier, you'd think
> scores of kids would be there, jostling for internships and the
> chance for a moment on the air. But you don't see much of that.
> Mostly geezers like me.
It would be a piece of cake to recruit them if anyone wanted to. Just listen to college stations, find shows you really like, and offer the kids that do them a show on BAI when they graduate. And once you convinced people that such shows were possible, it would be a cinch to recruit more directly, asking for demo tapes and trying out promising recruits in the overnight slots. Kids, remember, don't need to sleep.
And clearly nowadays, if they want excited kids that care about politics, they should get them some of those anarchists.
But the key is that a fair-size quantity of shows and slots have to be regularly available to turn over. When all shows are held like property by a noblesse d'antenne, such a flow of alternative volunteer liveliness is precluded.
Michael
__________________________________________________________________________ Michael Pollak................New York City..............mpollak at panix.com