nuralanwar wrote: > > --- In NewPacifica@y..., "R. Paul Martin" <webhead@g...> wrote: > (snip) > > The public in general doesn't want Pacifica around at all. > The public> voice that the public in general wants is heard on > mainstream media. If> you want the public to take over > programming Pacifica then you'd better > start looking for the > programming you say you want elsewhere because the > > public would remove it from the air entirely. > (snip) > > This argument about what the public in general wants is at least > as old as the time of Miguel de Cervantes: it was the same argument > used to justify the publication of the kind of trash romantic > chivalrous novels he lampooned in "Don Quijote." Cervantes didn't > buy it, & there's no particular reason for us to buy it, either. Nice non sequitur. If you think that Pacifica is in tune with the feelings of most Americans then you live a very insular life. Cervantes says he agrees with me. > .... I say, let > the WBAI community serve up honesty & daring creative radio to the > best of our collective ability & let the chips fall where they may I assume that's what's going to happen. But I see that debt, revised up to $4 million I'm told, and I wonder if the old PNB has already delivered the poison pill and we're not even addressing the most relevant issues. > -- you might be surprised at how popular it could turn out to be. I don't think so. Some things are done well enough but some things are just not going to fly to a general audience. > It's pretty much worked so far, in its own inimitable & wildly > uneven way, hasn't it? You are still there, no? My being there or not for my one one hundred sixty eighth of WBAI's air isn't relevant to whether the general public is sympathetic to WBAI or Pacifica in general. -- http://www.glib.com/ ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Get your FREE credit report with a FREE CreditCheck Monitoring Service trial http://us.click.yahoo.com/ACHqaB/bQ8CAA/ySSFAA/xYTolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> New Pacifica Working Group http://www.egroups.com/group/NewPacifica 'Save Our Stations!' To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: NewPacifica-unsubscribe@egroups.com Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/