?
Ann Garrison wrote: "I'm listening to KPFA News right now and I feel like
I might as well
be watching or listening to any corporate news station and, if I did,
they might be better."
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Actually there is a considerable number of Pacifica "activists" that
believe that Pacifica should be a corporate news station and that the only
real problem with Pacifica is that is it not "professional"
enough and that it is not the topics that are covered or the messages that
Pacifica puts out that is the problem with Pacifica but only that the
quality of the coverage of those topics and messages that is the problem.
So
if Pacifica became as "professional" as say CBS or NBC and covered the same
topics and delivered the same messages that CBS and NBC then the problems
of Pacifica would be solved.
And in order to become such a "professional" media outlet the influence
of ordinary (and "
unqualified") listener-sponsors and listeners, in general, would have to
be
severely reduced and the staff and officers and Board members of Pacifica
would have to chosen according to their "professional" status. I am not
sure just who would do the choosing of such "professional" staff, officers
and Board members of the new and Saved Pacifica if the "unqualified"
listener-sponsors no longer had the power to select them. I think that it
is implied that some of the Pacifica "activists" would do that selecting -
the very, very "professional" and very "qualified" wannabe be great ones of
the Pacifica "activists" that is - probably some of the "owners" and
Banners
and Censors who control the discussions on the Pacifica related listserv
might badly desire to have their "ownership" powers and Banning and
Censoring powers extended to selecting the oh so very "professional" staff
and officers and Board members of the new and Second Salvation Pacifica
that
some are fighting to establish.
Jim "But remember the 'Second Salvation' also means the Apocalypse and
the end of Pacifica." D.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ann Garrison" <anniegarrison@xxxxxxx>
> To: "Fulcrums of Change" <fulcrumsofchange@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 7:36 PM
> Subject: [Fulcrumsofchange] My God . . . I just tuned into KPFA's coverage
> of the Democratic Convention and understand why everyone's been asking
> what happpened to Pacifica?
>
>
>> I'm listening to KPFA News right now and I feel like I might as well be
>> watching or listening to any corporate news station and, if I did, they
>> might be better. I didn't really know what at all to expect here because
>> I hadn't been listening to any; I actually tuned in to listen to Africa
>> Today and realized it had been pre-empted for this totallly empty
>> rhetoric "around the Pepsi denter."
>>
>> ---Ann Garrison
>>
>> anniegarrison@xxxxxxx
>> SKYPE ID: anniegarrison
>> (415) 786-6839
>> (415) 287-4259
>>
>>
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