[lbo-talk] Report from KPFA CAB meeting

[Joseph Wanzala]

Doug, how can you say community is a 'mush' word when you have provided 
several examples of different types of community. Yes, there is the 
'intelligence community' - everyone knows what that is, and there is the 
'Latino Community',the 'Community of West Oakland' etc. it can be vague yes, 
but not meaningless. When you say 'community radio' it is obvious that you 
mean a community of people who participate or relate to a given radio 
station or network. I can't understand why you find this so hard to grasp. 
It's seems pretty obvious.

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 20:42:38 -0400
>
>Joseph Wanzala wrote:
>
>>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
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