>Doug, try not to think of community as a bad word just because
>Bernard White utters it. Reclaim it from him. Community is good.
It's a mush word. It means whatever one wants it to mean. There's the business community, the Phish community, the economics community, you name it.
Here's more from Hill which someone just sent me. It's from his posthumous book, Voluntary Listener Sponsorship (Pacifica, 1958), pages 4-5:
>Some attempts to organize audience support for broadcasting
>operations have been based . . . upon organization of the
>broadcasting institution itself as a public membership body, with
>listener payments constituting a direct membership due and involving
>electoral privileges and responsibilities. The KPFA experiment
>employed neither of these devices. The subscription was rather a
>direct payment to the station in consideration of services received
>by the listener at his loudspeaker. While various privileges or
>advantages form time to time were associated with a KPFA
>subscription, these arose entirely from the station's promotional
>activity, and bore no relation to the control of its policies.
>Pacifica Foundation, the non-profit educational corporation
>operating KPFA, had a controlling membership of community leaders
>separate from the subscribing audience developed by the experiment.
Doug