Indeed, your recent
> statement that Pacifica needs more
> professionalization not less, flies in
> the face of the type of artistic, creative,
> non-conventional, non-commercial
> culture that Lewis Hill was trying to cultivate.
>
> Joe W.
Why is it that you see professionalism as the polar opposite of “ artistic, creative non-conventional, non-commercial culture”? Professionalism does not in any way preclude radical, innovative, engaging radio –- in fact, it can facilitate it. What intrinsic relationship does decent sound quality and probing, analytical programming have to commercialism? Doug’s program on WBAI is a case in point. Or take Joe Frank’s unsettling “tales from the darker side of the urban jungle” –- it’s both highly professional and enormously creative. There is nothing inherently progressive about shitty sound.
Amateurish, ranting radio does not serve the cause of the left -– it alienates all but those who already agree with your point of view. And if our goal is to build a radical left, which I hope it is, then we need to be able to move beyond preaching to the converted.
===== Sasha Lilley Producer, Against the Grain Pacifica Radio's KPFA 510 848-6767 ext 209 www.againstthegrain.org
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