On Mar 19, 2014, at 1:41 PM, Louis Proyect <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 3/19/14 1:10 PM, Gar Lipow wrote:
>> I was around KPFK when Marc  Cooper was there. He was not a bad
>> journalist. But the "professionalizing" managers he supported wanted to
>> turn Pacifica into another NPR.
> 
> I never thought I'd say it but I would much prefer what Cooper wanted to 
> what we have now. Or Utrice Leid for that matter. I happen to love radio 
> and would give anything to have an NPR type station that was just a few 
> degrees to the left.

Exactly. I've been around Pacifica for over 20 years and watched it slide into 
deep chaos, madness, and irrelevance. Ignorant fools who can't talk and have no 
idea what they're talking about holding forth in the most unengaging ways. To 
those idiots, having people who know their subject and how to talk about it is 
some sort of debased "professionalism," and against the spirit of the 
"community." If I want to hear what the "community" thinks, I can eavesdrop on 
the subway. 

Doug
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