[Kzyxtalk] Pacifica & KPFA

[King Collins]

Paul, thanks for posting the article.

The Pacifica situation is hard to understand, like the French Revolution which I return to it every now and then, to try to figure it out.

Like the French revolution, the turmoil at Pacifica is sometimes used as an argument against democratic reforms here at KZYX. 

"After struggling for years to keep KPFA and Pacifica from becoming NPR Lite and watching with some hesitancy as the station and the network has gone through a painful and demoralizing “democratizing” process, I am loathe to see the latter occur here although it is clear that mechanisms need to be established in which the listeners are considered more than simply “cash cows” which seems to be the case with entrenched programmers still at KPFA."  Jeffrey Blankfort, 2005 (www.greenmac.com/KZYX/SL2_KZYX_history.pdf)

Well, that isn't exactly an argument against democracy but against a particular manifestation of it. What I advocate is a whole lot different from what has come down at Pacifica, which has become unwieldy to the max. 

--king



On Mar 28, 2014, at 11:47 AM, Paul Lambert wrote:

Astounding article by the LA Weekly on the chaos inside Pacifica:

http://www.laweekly.com/2014-03-20/news/left-wing-darling-pacifica-radio-is-sliding-into-the-abyss
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