I urge you to click on this website. Avnery's piece is powerful, relevant, and as usual,
beautifully written. The moment of silence is for the anniversary of the death of the founder of Pacifica; indeed, the founding of public radio, throughout the U.S. and - I think - the world. There's much more to Lew Hill; some of which can be found via Google, Wkipedia, et al. -Ed _____ From: Jan Tucker [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, July 31, 2011 4:05 PM To: Jan Tucker Subject: Uri Avnery on Breivik http://janbtucker.com/blog/2011/07/31/uri-avnery-on-strange-political-bedfel lows/ Jan B. Tucker J.B. Tucker & Associates, PI-10143 P.O. Box 433 Torrance CA 90508-0433 Tel: 213.787.5476 Fax: 310.618.1950 http://www.janbtucker.com http://www.janbtucker.com/blog AIM: janbtucker Twitter: janbtucker Facebook: Jan B. Tucker Myspace: Jan B. Tucker * * * -----Original Message----- From: Carolyn Birden [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, July 31, 2011 4:52 PM To: [email protected]; Alliance List; [email protected] Subject: [alliance] A moment of silence, please, for Lewis Hill My calendar ( from Autonomedia ) says that Lewis Hill took his own life on July 31, 1957, but Wikipedia and Hill's wife Joy Hill note the date as August 1, 1957. So you might want to create a moment of silence and reflection on both days, one for the man himself and one for his creation, Pacifica. The article at the link below is a wonderful piece: we have not come so very far after all, it seems. We still have the same conflict between means and ends, as anyone listening to our fund drives can deduce. Carolyn from http://www.whitings-writings.com/lengthening_shadow.htm From "Cracking the Ike Age", The Dolphin No.23, Aarhus University Press, Denmark C1992 John Whiting May be quoted in part with credit as below: THELENGTHENINGSHADOW: Lewis Hill and the Origins of Listener-Sponsored Broadcasting in America By John Whiting An excerpt from "THE GOOD OLD DAYS" Lewis Hill arrived at a theory which he set out to prove: a non- commercial radio station could survive if two percent of its potential audience could be persuaded to pay a voluntary subscription to support it. He was convinced from the beginning that the paying audience would be predominantly middle- to upper-class liberals. This "2% theory", as Hill formulated it, was to be one of the philosophical as well as economic cornerstones of Pacifica Radio. In its early years, Pacifica was never remotely proletarian except in sympathy: Here [is] perhaps the most profound implication of the theory of listener-sponsorship. As a general rule, it is persons of education, mental ability, or cultural heritage equating roughly with the sources of intellectual leadership in the community who tend to become voluntary listener-sponsors. In the KPFA experiment this correspondence was empirically unmistakable, although the subscribing audience apparently touched every economic stratum. It is thus clear that the 2% theory, when we speak of supporting serious cultural broadcasting by this means, represents also a way of extending the legitimate functions of social and cultural leadership [emphasis Hill's].Obviously, to earn systematic support from the community's intellectual leadership, the listener- sponsored station must give the values and concerns of that leadership an accurate reflection at their highest level...Because the resulting broadcast service is public, the community at large-no doubt by slow accretion and assimilation--is enabled to participate in the best aspects of its own culture as few communities have done before. (HVL pp.13-14) This is both a statement of intent and of history, for Lewis Hill wrote it after KPFA had been on the air for eight years. Although the ends were democratic and egalitarian, the means, and even the broader cultural premises, were unambiguously, unashamedly elitist. The history of Pacifica Radio, and then of National Public Broadcasting in America, is a saga of conflict among those who wished to shift the emphasis towards one pole or the other. Carolyn M. Birden 917 520 1268 Director, Pacifica Foundation Elected (Listener) Delegate WBAI WBAI 99.5 FM New York WBAI.org and PacificaFoundation.org No virus found in this message. 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