On Sep 23, 2012, at 12:54 PM, Mitchel Cohen wrote:
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> Such is the pity! WBAI is the worse for wear because of its series
> of (at best) do-nothing and ignorant Program Directors and
> management. I can only hope that WBAI's new Program Director will
> break from that awful tradition and add, as regular columnists,
> today's sharpest radical critics and ecologists (some of whose names
> and contact info I've provided to him).
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> Alex Cockburn may no longer physically inhabit this mortal coil, but
> his writings live on. Even those columns of thirty years ago -- with
> proper artistic enunciation, as evidenced at his Memorial by the
> enjoyable and witty recitations of his finest essays -- would still,
> today, comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable, and
> provide the kind of panache, political scorecard and literary sweep
> so needed in our media, including, especially, WBAI.
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> I'm keeping my fingers crossed and I'm holding my breath ... but,
> perhaps like Alex Cockburn, I'm already turning blue.
>
> Mitchel Cohen
Why the angst? As long as Playthell Benjamin excretes on the 6PM news you get all the Left (ie., Obamist) commentary anyone can ask for!
Shane Mage "Thunderbolt steers all things." Herakleitos of Ephesos, fr. 64
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