The Hour of the Wolf encompassed much that helped to shape WBAI, but the Pacifica era of responsible reporting and intelligent imagination is long gone. So, now, is Margot. We who knew her will miss the very fact that she was among us, even at a distance.
68 years old.
ReplyDeleteThe scourge of cancer.
She was also a fine writer. What a terrible loss!
ReplyDeleteSadly, I never got to hear Adler on WBAI, since I was born a bit too late. I guess I missed some good radio.
DeleteShe must have been a good person, too, since, I notice, even people who will disagree with each other to the extreme agree that her loss is a sad one.
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Entre chien et loup:
ReplyDeleteI was first on air live with Margot at the Church, and it was Margot, acting as program director, who green lit my first fully produced program, so I knew her a bit, long ago, when the place mattered.
It hasn’t, for a very long time, of course, since she and other folks like her, moved on, as the place became ‘political’ and ‘politically correct’, and no longer had any appeal or attraction for actual talent or for a meaningful, intelligent audience.
These things are lost in the past now, as is WBAI, and what remains is all that remains, as memory, as it will, fades into nothingness.
My thoughts are with her son, Alex, a young man who faces the loss of both his parents in a brief span.
~ ‘indigo’
One did not have to have a long-standing association with Margot to forever carry her in one's memory. The last time I saw her was at NPR, when she came out of her office to give me a hug. Margot was one of a kind, but—generally speaking--I am tempted to inject a cliché: "They don't make 'em like that anymore." The truth is that they actually do, but WBAI no longer appreciates such talent—hasn't done so in decades.
DeleteShould I barf at this point with Amy Goodman using Adler's death as a pitching point? Jeez...
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Yes, by all means, join the ABC (Amy Barf Chorus).
DeleteSeriously. How disgusting is Goodman to claim she just heard about Adler's death and to start pitching in Adler's
Deletename within a minute. Even Hay-tie has more class than that.
Oh, wait, Goodman is essentially pitching for herself, since WBAI pays her for her show.
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Technically, yes, but I understand that Pacifica hasn't been fulfilling its side of the financial agreement, so she is owed a great deal of money. I may be wrong about that—there are so many conflicting stories being circulated.
DeleteRight. But in theory, if WBAI raises enough money, she gets her back pay. So, in essence, she's the one to
Deleteultimately gain.
Not simply in theory. In the event of bankruptcy, sale of frequency, etc, Goodman has a high-priority claim with respect to monies owed her.
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Why doesn't Amy Goodman wear makeup? I'm suspicious.
ReplyDeletePerhaps because it tends to inhibit speed talking?
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