>Doug, all you ever do is rag on Pacifica,
All? I'll chalk that up to exaggeration for rhetorical effect.
> even though you have a program on Pacifica's New York station WBAI
>(which I assume you think is as equally distant from Lew Hill's
>vision as the rest of Pacifica programming) and are happy to appear
>on other Pacifica stations as you did on KPFA's Mouning Show today.
Yes, of course. I think Pacifica is an invaluable resource that's not being used to its best advantage. Radio licenses in five metro areas are precious assets, and we're not getting the political returns from them them that we should be. Why is that "ragging"?
>It is also deeply ironic and indictive of how little you understand
>the Pacifica crisis that you belittle the efforts to save Pacifica
>from a corporate takeover,
Samori Marksman, the late WBAI program director who gave me my show, told me about that takeover scheme long before it became public knowledge. I've been following the thing for years. Don't tell me I don't know very much about it.
> suggesting that it was not a 'Manichaen' battle
I described it as Manichean because, as bad as the "coupsters" were, it promoted a complacency among the old guard: all we have to do is to return to the status quo ante bellum and all will be well. I saw this with my own eyes and heard it with my own ears.
>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.
These are thoroughly false oppositions. I think dissidence should be held to high standards - we should be smart, informed, articulate, and appealing. Holding out a microphone and broadcasing the unfiltered voices of "the community," like some slice of audio verite, is none of thsoe things.
Doug