[lbo-talk] Report from KPFA CAB meeting

[Joseph Wanzala]

Again Doug, your perspective is warped. The fact that there were only ten 
community members present is not really indicative of anything. This was not 
a widely publicized meeting and the KPFA Community Advisory Board is barely 
in existence. The meeting was held mainly to figure out how to expand the 
body. Ideally the Community Advisory Board, when it is up and running. By 
the way, I've been to the KQED Community Advisory Board meetings (the KPQED 
that you seem to hold in high regard) and there are rarely any 'community 
members' present at all.

Doug, it is really a question of whether you fundamentally support the 
'idea' of community radio or whether you are always looking for reasons to 
rain on its parade. Perhaps you should not be at WBAI if you don't support 
the essential idea behind it.

As to work, yes, I work (for the man) like everybody else, in fact I 
generally work 60-70 hour weeks. Most people on the KPFA LSB are 
fully-employed busy, accomplished people - some are lucky enough to have 
some extra time on their hands, but I'm certainly not one of them. Generally 
fully engaged busy people are more likely to take on engaging 
extra-curricular activities and have large cranial capacity for minutiae 
that lesser beings find overwhelming.

If you've been following Pacifica - or Public Radio in general - for 15 
years, and you don't understand the role of Community Advisory Boards, then 
you've obviously still got a lot to learn. From what I can tell, you hardly 
seem to be able to distinguish between WBAI and the rest of the network.

Interestingly, you will moan and groan about the problems at WBAI - but 
guess who is trying to actually do something to solve those problems - yours 
truly!

I think you need to study up on what is really going on at Pacifica.

Joe W.


>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] Report from KPFA CAB meeting
>Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 16:10:09 -0400
>
>Joseph Wanzala wrote:
>
>>There were also about 10 community members present.
>
>Man, if that doesn't point to the problem with this notion of "community," 
>I don't know what does. Ten people? If there were still phone booths 
>around, you could hold the next meeting in one.
>
>But the other problem is...what the fuck is this all about? I've been 
>following Pacifica politics from a more-or-less inside position for the 
>last 15 years, and none of this makes any sense to me. It's further inside 
>than the proverbial inside baseball. And if I don't get it, how can anyone 
>else be expected to get it?  Who has the time to devote to all these 
>minutiae? How do you have the time, Joe? Don't you have a job?
>
>Doug
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