Re: The Crisis at KPFA and Pacifica

[Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1@xxxxxxx>]

At 12:11 AM -0400 8/20/04, Doug Henwood wrote:
> How much time do you spend listening to Pacifica stations?

Less than once a week, more than once a month.  I only listen to it
on the Net, as no local station carry any Pacifica program to my
knowledge.

As far as radio and TV are concerned, mostly as an activist I'm more
interested in getting some of our events covered (or some of our
speakers interviewed) by them than being part of their passive
audience.

At 12:11 AM -0400 8/20/04, Doug Henwood wrote:
> I'm afraid you're just reacting with some impulsive reflex that
> "democracy" is a good thing, regardless of the empirical
> circumstances (the actual subset of the actual listeners who vote)
> and the theoretical difficulty (how do you identify the proper
> constituency that is eligible to vote).

Alternatively, Pacifica can quit pretending that it exists for the
good of the community at all and just change itself into another
commercial radio network, albeit a liberal one.
--
Yoshie

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