[lbo-talk] Re: 9/11 related interviews or content

[Joseph Wanzala]

First of all I am quoting a KPFK programmer, not myself. I think you know 
this and are simply playing games. Anyway, as you know Pacifica is a 
*network* consisting of 5 stations of which WBAI - where your program runs 
is one. It is true that the WBAI listenership seems to have declined or at 
least are not responding appreciably to fund drives, but this has to do with 
internal squabbles and bad management and resulting bad radio. Indeed, 
Pacifica just went through a major finance and governance crisis - and 
Pacifica programming is quite multifacted, ranging from the type of work you 
do, to the immensely popular Amy Goodman, to Dennis Bernstein, Sonali 
Kolhatkar, Marc Cooper and so on. The kind of programming MY Karthik is 
exploring is the exception rather than the rule on Pacifica and the recent 
episode with Berlet and Griffin, and the coverage of the 9-11 hearings by 
Larry Bensky during which he shut out 9-11 skeptics, shows how people with 
your sensibilities tend to dominate Pacifica programming. Also, it is simply 
not true at KPFA and KPFK that listenership has declined. Fund drives a re a 
tangile measure of listener support and both KPFA and KPFK just completed 
very succesful fund drives (as KPFA programmers/listeners on this list can 
attest - or just go to their websites. So you are absotutely wrong.


>From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
>Reply-To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
>To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
>Subject: RE: [lbo-talk] Re: 9/11 related interviews or content
>Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 10:01:57 -0400
>
>Joseph Wanzala quoted:
>
>>I am a radio host and Pacifica journalist.
>
>Hmm, wonder if this has anything to do with the listenership falling to 
>almost immeasurable levels?
>
>Doug
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