>On Tuesday, March 9, 2004, at 11:29 AM, Doug Henwood wrote:
>
>>Another point. Pacifica desperately needs to widen its audience
>>beyond its hardcore base.
>
>Been there, done that. KPFT got very, very trashed for succeeding at it.
By dropping a lot of the politics, no? That's no what I mean.
This is from a NYT story yesterday on Al Sharpton's future:
>Mr. Sharpton acknowledged that his attempts to become a media star
>could draw criticism that his presidential race was more about his
>own ambition than it was about his causes. But, he said, any such
>accusations would be unfair: his first priority was to use daily
>radio and television talk shows to further awareness of his civil
>rights causes in a media environment that he said is far richer in
>outspoken right-leaning hosts than it is in left-leaning ones.
>
>"What the left has missed that the right understands is you need a
>mixture of policy and personality, because people tend to view and
>listen to people as well as to policy, and we have not developed the
>personalities,'' Mr. Sharpton said.
>
>He added, "I don't think anyone denies that I have built a national
>personality.''
Doug