Faction infraction

In case you weren't tuned in this evening, here, in its entirety (except for a tired commercial break) is the Wednesday night LSB meeting as broadcast live.

If, like I, you had the impression that this was going to be a gathering of the entire Local Board, uou should know that the participants were few and, obviously, selected. The host is John Kane, who sounds jittery and obviously doesn't totally believe in freedom of speech, and members of both factions are present, although the destructive Cerene Roberts is not. I imagine she could be seen pacing and cursing up and down that block of Atlantic Avenue. I frankly expected her to come crashing through the skylight and onto the card table. I was wrong, but she did get mentioned—not by name, but as disrupter.

You will notice how reference to the WBAI JUC faction's failure to vote approval of the long overdue audit is met with nervous attempts to change the subject; how one board member keeps pushing the JUC desire to hand WBAI over to MNN (the Manhattan Neighborhood Network)—which, as Max Schmid correctly points out, would spell the end of Pacifica's NY station. 

Missing from this show is any semblance of the LSB being unified, having the same goal, or—in general—facing reality. In short, you will probably come away from this show with a pretty good idea of how things stand and are likely to remain standing... until they fall.

Listen for yourself. Relish an intelligent caller's observations and bemoan the many members of WBAI's LSB who simply don't get it.

The show was still on the air when visitors to this blog began to react, Here's a good exemplar—you will find more as further comments come in. 

The full meeting sans commercials.

A BLOG VISITORS EARLY REACTION
I listened for a bit, but I'm about to tune away (if that phrase still applies on the net). These are unintelligent, uninteresting, talentless people who, at best, sound as if they're running for the least interesting, least important local school board, ever.

They have no interest in the original mission, or in radio, and are simply wannabe apparatchiks who can't draw a simple conclusion like 'Well, gee, we don't have listeners because we don't have money and we don't have money and had to lay off people because we don't do radio that's interesting or anyone wants to actually listen to except for a very small, very unintelligent, microscopic audience that can't possibly support the radio station.

None of this is new, all of it is obvious, but none of it is obvious to them..

Perhaps most importantly, none of these people are the sort of people who do things, who get things done, who make things happen.

Sure they're mindless leftists who still support the ghost of Samori Marksman, Revolutionary Hero & Savior of The Oppressed, but there are other people out there of similar mindsets who actually get something to happen occasionally.

Not these people.

They clearly have no interest in the foundational ideals which once made the station matter.

They clearly have no interest in radio, only their personal failures and their personal agendas.

The takeaway, I suppose, is the same as it's been for years and years and years and years:

Failures Fail.

—anonymous