WHAT IS GOING ON AT WBAI NOW
On Sep 27, 2017 3:22 PM, Linda Perry wrote:
Bates said he sent me an email last week which i didn't see, but when i explained that the time dated WBAI Evening News which i worked hours on had to go tonight, He said, 'it ain't gonna happen." This infuriated me. How dare he speak to me like that, me who worked so hard on providing details on trumps tax deal released today and NY protests against Scott Pruitt and EPA cuts as well as so many other newscasts with pay hardly forthcoming, so I quit. Bye folks. I love you, but I've had enough. —Linda
On Sep 27, 2017 3:22 PM, Steve Brown inquired:
How come Bill Crosier isn’t being copied on these emails? I have added him to the list. He is the only one who has the power to discipline and/or remove Tony Bates through his authority over GM Berthold Reimers (who seems to be missing in action, again). I haven’t heard anyone say a good word about Tony Bates -- except Berthold, and that is because he has, in effect, handed over to Tony the role of general manager, leaving Berthold free to gyre and gymble in the wabe, while happily collecting his six-figure GM salary for which Pacifica receives no benefit. —Stephen M Brown
I am not a fan of Linda Perry's newscasts, but...
On Sep 27, 2017 3:22 PM, Mitchel Cohen posted:
Let's remember, please, that Tony Bates has a history of showing very poor judgment, both politically, interpersonally, and in terms of actually assisting programmers with their shows -- and that's just this time around.
He fired Rev. Billy, rather than working with him to strengthen his show, not appreciating Billy's significance in the New York scene.
He publicly libeled me as a CIA agent on a widely read listserve (bastard!), and rejected my own suggestions for shows with abrupt dismissals, same as he's apparently doing here with Linda and Randy. (I'll list them for you, if it makes any difference.)
He's forcing out Linda Perry and Randy Credico -- are you KIDDING ME?!
He's throwing obstacles in the way of some of our best producers. Can't talk about it here, without their OK, but I'll ask them if you think it would be helpful.
A good PD should be working with the producers -- doesn't have to know everything themself, but should know who to turn to in the listening area to help them develop their shows and to integrate them with the other shows. ... and RESPECT the staff and volunteers who work their asses off, mostly for no monetary pay, even when you think they should be doing things differently.
Very sad.
I don't want to make this one individual into the devil -- he's not. His rude behavior and bad decisions, though, are immature on several levels, including politically. It goes to the GM's weakness in being a manager. (The GM does have other strengths, but they're undermined severely by his bad hirings, lack of proper supervision of employees, and lack of just plain ol' vision for the station.)
My two cents, for what it's worth.
—Mitchel Cohen
Randy Credico doesn't like this development one bit. Of course, he has worked hard to get his air time, but it looks as if he may be losing out to Bates when it comes to Berthold Reimers hugs.
ReplyDeleteReimers, for all we know, is tied and gagged behind a dusty pile of premiums.
Yesterday morning, Haskins mumbled something about Linda being absent, but he attributed that to her having more work than he can handle.
Oh, to be a bug on the wall!
All publicly available facts point to WBAI having been written off.
ReplyDelete~ 'indigopirate'
The indications are certainly there.
DeleteUnless I am missing something, I don't know what the email she didn't receive is about or what the actual situation is. All I'm getting is that she is pissed and quit, correct? No loss, since she's an ideological asshole, anyway.
ReplyDeleteAs for Bates, we know he is a total scumbag, probably next in line for GM. Credico has been playing some sort of game for power at the station, but what it is, I don't really know. Does he want Bates job? Does he want to look like a savior with his great non-press conference? I don't know.
As for Crosier, I just don't see him doing anything. In fact, I think he'll be gone in the near future.
Brown's comments are interesting, considering he loved Reimers in the past.
SDL
Briefly, Linda spent a lot of time on a report. Something else was aired in its place, orders of Bates, who appears to be in command now. Reimers is invisible, but continues collecting his paycheck, Bill Crosier is staying out of this, Credico is having hissyfits, Linda resigned, Haskins is making up stories as his imaginary “community” falls apart, the fat lady is chooking on her lozenges, Mimii may soon turn white again, another fund raiser.is about a week away, the ESB people are prepping Kong, etc., etc., etc.
DeleteAnd they still don't have a production company making a reality show out of this shit?
DeleteBy the way, how is this Perry vs Bates situation any of Credico's business? Doesn't he have politicians to talk to in order to save WBAI? Do you realize Credico is actually funnier in his WBAI failings then he ever is as a "comedian"?
I watched King Kong vs Godzilla the other day.
I bet I could get more listeners doing reviews of Asian instant noodles than WBAI can get with their crap.
SDL
None of this is Credico’s business, he just wants to be the guy in charge. And he’s never been funny.
DeleteThe beat goes on....Tony Bates is a roughneck. Hopefully the station is in its last days. But it should be know that neither Berthold nor Tony are progressives. They are black racists - even other black people know this. But then again so was Samori, Robert Knight, Bernard White and Valerie Van Isler - professional black bigots - fuck all of them deep!
ReplyDeleteChris,
ReplyDeleteSeveral months ago Steve Brown published a mini curriculum vitae. Note: Brown omitted his porn connections. But Brown boasted that he managed Credico's campaigns and that he helped establish PRN.
Brown also omitted the name of the individual, who edits his longer pronouncements.
More recently Brown denounced the harsh prison sentence given to Anthony Weiner.
Although not a member of the WBAI LSB, Brown controls this august body. Brown was responsible for the hiring of Katz and of Reimers, two pitiful individuals.
Thank you.
Ed Manfredonia
I just looked at WBAI's website and see that they haven't even been able to cut one day of begging. Maybe they need to offer a zombies enslaved on the Moon conspiracy DVD or something?
ReplyDeleteAnyway, their big ass, world shaking petition stands at 786 signatures.
You really have to laugh at something like this. 99.5FM and 50,000 watts and they still can't get listeners! I bet a polka station could do better. A 24/7 comedy station would blow WBAI away- Oh, wait. we do have a 24/7 comedy station on 99.5FM.
And everyone at Pacifica and WBAI refuses to discuss firing Reimers.
SDL
Reality is simply too uncomfortable for them to recognize it and the programming is growing worse.
DeleteDid you take a look at the WBAI site's schedule? It has always been useless, but now the print is so small and the colors are the same density, so it is literally unreadable. There is barely a mention of Reimers—the monthly newsletter has died on the vine, and even a cursory look at the site reflects a disinterest in the station except as a means by which these self-serving dilettantes can feed their imagined importance.
Why should anyone donate money to pay these swindlers a salary? Why, at this point, should anyone care if WBAI's death is brought to full term?
Why should some of these criminals not be made to pay for their crimes? Apropos criminals, they are running promotion by Bernard White, whose latest scam seems to be a posthumous tribute to Elombe Brath—the vandals stick together, thick as thieves, as it were. Haskins, perhaps the most pathetic of these fools, proudly identified White this morning when the promotion ran.
Berthold Reimers should never have been hired, nor should the mindless who brought him aboard. WBAI's story is a tale of deception, avarice, shallowness and criminality. A ship of fools that is about to sink.
"Oh, wait. we do have a 24/7 comedy station on 99.5FM." could have come straight from Gay Null's mouth. The abyss staring back?
DeleteThis particular little ship has been foundering for a fuck of a long time.
ReplyDeleteRalph Engelman’s eagerly accommodating and facilitating Percy Sutton’s and his people’s influence coming to dominate, then control, the local station board, eagerly and ardently desirous of folding WBAI in to Sutton’s Inner City Broadcasting mini-empire, first placing Anna Kosof as general manager with Pablo Guzman as program director, accompanied by notice to staff that they were to be replaced by Sutton’s preferences, followed by the then forced sale of the station at 359 E 62nd Street via the court ruling of Percy Sutton’s brother, Oliver, with multiple unaddressed questions as to the cash flows following from the sale and mortgage restructuring, then followed by the installation of Samori Marksman as Maximum Revolutionary in Chief, with accompanying further and ever-growing contempt for and alienation of WBAI’s existing audience base as hopelessly bourgeois and also, well, you know, hopelessly Jewish in many cases… all this firmly established the pattern of the systemic exploitation of a culturally and financially valuable asset for purposes overwhelmingly personal and overwhelmingly in stark opposition with the original foundational goals.
Is it any surprise that this led to bad places?
It has, however, taken a very long time for the rot to prove sufficient to consume and destroy the fundamental value and values of what had been so generously gifted long, long, long ago.
~ ‘indigopirate’
Thank you, Indigo, I have been waiting for Percy Sutton to be brought into the broader canvas. They didn’t come much slicker.
DeleteA long day’s journey into light.
Corruption is like rust – and rust never sleeps.
Delete~ 'indigo'
WBAI just asked supporters to come to court when the ESRT motion is argued. Another bad idea. Judges like an orderly courtroom and hate any kind of demonstration.
ReplyDeleteI hope they do get listeners into the courtroom. That should finally get WBAI some press, when the scum start a riot. Do you realize how filthy and crazy The Remnants are? Can you imagine how annoyed the judge would get when they start chanting?
DeleteSDL
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ReplyDeleteSo they finally slipped Bernard White back in.
He probably figures he's positioning himself to move up if Reimers is canned.
Bates as GM, White back as PD? Could happen!
The Titanic's bow is under water and Mitch Cohen is complaining the service in the dining salon is too slow.
Wasn't Bates the guy who was sent to D.C. after being accused of harassing (perhaps even assaulting) women at the station? Does that fall under "rude" or "immature"?
I'd like to see the list of Reimers' "other strengths".
Yeah, there was a petition at the station to get rid of Bates, which most staff signed.
DeleteA White & Bates team. Boy, that will sink WBAI for sure. More racism and paranormal than ever before.
SDL
Chris,
ReplyDeleteIt was Berthold Reimers, who fired Tony Bates. Bates then went to DC.
The late Ibrahi Gonzales (? for Gonzales) informed Reimers- at least according to Ibrahim.
Jim Dingeman defended Bates and said that Bates was fired because of racism. But I was told that a female had complained to Berthold.
Bates was and always will be a bum.
As for Mitchel Cohen, he knows absolutely nothing about business. Cohen provided me with a list of his accomplishments- including the Park Slope Co-op. I mentioned that I had helped put the American Stock Exchange out of business and had successfully intervened to prevent the merger of the NYSE and the Deutsche Borse. Of course I had assistance- several members of the Amex and NYSE provided me with information.
Mitchel Cohen told me that he did not like that I had been wired by the FBI for an investigation into narcotics smuggling and money laundering at the Amex. Cohen is a joke- and unfortunately so are the individuals, who support Cohen.
Ed Manfredonia
Thanks for the report Agent Cohen but I still don't know why Linda and Randy are out.
ReplyDeleteBWW?
DeleteThat would be Broadcasting While White :)
Seriously, I would imagine that Bates saw them as a threat—who knows?
Credico is the one to watch—there is something underhanded going on that involves him.
I think Credico, as much of a total life failure as he is, sees himself as a celebrity who is going to save WBAI and take over the station, molding it into a propaganda machine for his personal views.
DeleteSDL
Whatever plans he had for himself at WBAI appear to have been derailed by Bates. Word has it that he either quit or was fired, and there are serious questions being raised regarding his (and WBAI's) tie to
Delete(former?) Trump buddy, Roger Stone.
Wait. Are you saying Credico is out of WBAI? I just looked at his twitter and he doesn't say either quit or fired, just suspended. This is the link to the post:
Deletehttps://twitter.com/Credico2016/status/914218309096263681
My oh my, these jackals are eating each other. I'm guessing Bates is making his power play now.
SDL
I think so, but this is still the wreck of BAI, so minds are changed quicker than underwear.
DeleteWell, one thing I can guarantee you is that Credico isn't going to get even the minimal fan support that TPCS got when it was cancelled. Whether he learns how irrelevant he is or not is another story. Oh, wait. He can go visit his politician friends and have them write letters in his support for reinstatement, and he can hold another non-press conference. There ya go!
DeleteSDL
He could have someone hand out flyers for a major meeting on the steppes of Outer Mongolia, a perfect place for him to do impersonations of people nobody would recognize anyway.
DeleteHe had some decent on-air encounters at WBAI, but I think he more or less shot his wad in the short time he was there. Then, too, as I said, there is the Assagne/Stone thing, whatever that turns out to be.
Linda Perry, by the way, is the only person who "unfriended" me on FaceBook. I didn't know there was such an option until she declared me ever so wrong for not avoiding the truth concerning Steve Post!!! Aren't people amazing?
The petition only has 827 signers as of 2:30 PM on Saturday, September 30. It does not look like they will get to 1,000 before the ESRT motion is argued on October 4. That is an indication of how little support WBAI has.
ReplyDeleteConsider, too, that there are over 200 people who have vested interest in keeping on the air the show with which they are associated. In most cases, they are driven by vanity and a false sense of worth, but some also have a little personal income scheme going. So, I believe even the 827 figure is as delusional as the accounting stories Reimers invents.
DeleteChris,
ReplyDeleteA Question. What was this successful event at the Apollo?
Thank you.
Ed
Looks to me like a shindig by others that WBAI latched itself onto. Also, it doesn't look like it was meant to be any sort of real money maker. it was probably for Byrd and The Blacks to get some attention, mainly.
DeleteSDL
I guess you are referring to a tribute of sorts to the MOVE people who messed up a nice Philadelphia neighborhood back in the Eighties and were dealt with outrageously by Rizzo, who firebombed their house(s) and—inadvertently, one supposes—razed the entire block, including homes of decent residents. It was truly outrageous and, certainly, a major instance of over-reaction by the so-called city of brotherly love.
DeleteThis will give you details of the Apollo event:
https://www.apollotheater.org/event/apollo-uptown-hall-movement-required/
I hadn't heard that it was "successful", but the WBAI scam artists tend to label everything to reflect favorably on themselves. The tickets were free, but merchandise (DVDs, etc.) was being hawked, As far as I know, this was not a fundraiser for WBAI, but it had the station written all over it, from being MC'd by "WBAI's Gary Byrd" to the music being performed by WBAI's awful duo, "The Illustrious Blacks". I wonder if the brought their own applause recordings with them. :)
Your guess is probably right, SDL. The whole MOVE thing has become something for WBAI to take advantage of. They are, after all, seasoned opportunists.
DeleteI was surprised to recently hear Ray McGovern on Credico's show. Considering what he's been through and the important things he has to say, it's sad to see him trashing his reputation by appearing on Credico's show, Lyndon LaRouche's You Tube channel and others. Not only that, but him constantly saying that he has no problem with Trump. Lost all respect for him.
ReplyDeleteThe funny thing is that—at this point—they speak to themselves. The boy has cried "wolf!" 6,034* times too often.
Delete* Unofficial total.
I'm having me some laughs. I looked at the WBAI website and the pre beg-a-thon thing is still there. It looks like they didn't knock a single day off.
ReplyDeleteHay-tie played the Linda Perry ESRT promo, even though she's out of there.
SDL
His having less than a half of brain and a cup of idiocy that runneth over... can one expect rationality? He also talked about his "foreign language initiative, claiming to have invented and promising to resurrect the brilliant concept of having Eskimo housewives and Siberian sorority girls tell potential WBAI victims how they wouldn't dream of visiting the homeland without a streaming device set to receive the wealth of genius pouring out of a shawl-draped 3rd-floor room in Brooklyn.
DeleteApropos creativity, the "Aware" woman's hour-long pitch for instant authorship preceded Haskins. I was listening, so I jumped out of bed and spent the next six hours writing a major five-volume work of Gothic fiction. Normally, the WBAI bargain price for that would have come to $1,250, but I did it the sneaky way and turned my radio off.
Now I am practicing quickie autographs, getting ready for my book tour.
I'd love to see what people who bought the course wrote, if anything.
DeleteIf WBAI wants foreign languages, they should go and give Swahili and Xhosa courses on the air.
SDL
If anybody actually bought the course and wrote something that was published, that could be a cell prize offered when the Rikers' Repertory Theater does its play, "Marathonia mon Amour".
DeleteAs for foreign languages, they are already doing that one—ever heard "Earful of Ebonics"?
"Earful of Ebonics" HAHAHA! I tuned into WBAI for a few minutes and thought I heard "Cake" Davis hawking The Art of Dying Conference. did I hear right or wrong?
DeleteSDL
I tuned in late, as it were, and I think you heard righht. I also think I heard that this conference was bbeing offered at a huge discount—a final price, lowered.six feet.
DeleteWay to go!
Im-ho-tep. Im-ho-tep. David Im-ho-tep.
ReplyDeletebai's begathon ... aka when shitty programming gets replaced with different shitty programming .
ReplyDeleteI had to laugh when I heard Irsay's promo where he says WBAI is a station loved by numbers of listeners. Yeah, he's correct in that assertion. I would have added "low" before numbers, however.
ReplyDeleteSDL
I noticed that, too. James does not readily accept WBAI's prevailing dishonesty.
DeleteHas anybody heard BS-in-Chief Bates yet? If not, don't worry—the Blosdale woman is already on the prowl for prey—her lies paving the way for his jumbo variety. Should be good, he's had a month in which to make further changes to history and invent new stories of his childhood.
As far as I know, last begathon's income has yet to be made public. Nor have we any accounting to indicate how the thugs spent it. "Yellow Magnets", anyone? Salaries paid to the officially unsalaried? Ahhh, the list is ever growing.
I heard Bates earlier with the black people were the first people in the Americas thing. I'm not even going to debate how nonsensical that is.
DeleteI predict this beg-a-thon is going to be a big miss. The audience is shrinking, as we know. however, they are even losing members of The Remnants now to other stations. When you find regulars leaving for paranormal nonsense like George Noory, you need to accept that you're screwed.
Btw, to be fair, most of Noory's shows are drivel, but he does pull out a good guest every week or so.
Anyway, Bates just needs to bring back the Zapper, Double Helix Water (shakin' not stirred) and other such goodies. The Remanants love that stuff.
SDL
Are you saying that Atlas wasn't black?
DeleteI am still waiting for them to offer refurbished auras. Brady is said to have a large carton of them (all stolen by scaled aliens, of course) and someone told me that he found an ingenious way to "unlock" them using a reverse-engineered, solar-driven zapper.
Will that special zapper ever become an undelivered premium?
Perhaps.
I still think they need to sell advanced seats on an alien spacecraft. You know when it lands, seats will run out immediately. To serve man...
DeleteAnd now, WBAI presents its leading thespian - Mimi Rosenberg! I still say she is William Shatner's long lost daughter.
You know what the problem with these goofs is? They don't understand that racism isn't the one and only be all and end all problem in this country.
SDL
I never liked Shatner as Kirk, nor the original TV series, but I greatly admire how he re-invented himself. I like the present incarnation and seriously question any comparison made with the highly disagreeable, artificially colored Mimi Rosenberg. :)
DeleteCome on, now. You must have liked Shatner in The Devil's Rain and Kingdom of the Spiders. Those were two knock 'em dead pieces of trash full of laughs. Hell, The Devil's Rain even had Anton LaVey as advisor, whatever that means, considering the story made little sense. I wonder if LaVey was ever on WBAI...
DeleteSDL
I'm afraid I missed those films—guess I was too busy wearing out his album. This would be a perfect time to reissue his memorable rendition of "Rocket Man."
DeleteI believe that the comparison between Mimi and Shatner was based on Shatner's tendency to over act. The only actor who chewed the scenery more than Shatner was Ricardo Montalban as Khan.
DeleteGood point.
DeleteHow can you not like Shatner Chris? He is the greatest champion of ham to ham combat. Think Benito Diaz times ten.
DeleteThinking Benito Diaz times two knocks me out. Ten would kill me.
DeleteThere is not much room for thought in minuscule minds.
ReplyDeleteBates is now claiming Native American ancestry. I guess he is hedging his bets in case Africans did not settle in America before 1492.
ReplyDeleteHe will eventually come around to talking about his Paleolithic ancestry.
DeleteI'm looking for a 8 DVD set of fake history for under $500 Chris. Can you help me out?
ReplyDeleteYou can get hours and hours of fake history and other lies free at 99.5. Get it, burn it and choke on it. You might also consider the Trump Films DVD set, "A Journey with Freddy Douglass Across the Ocean to the Happy People of Puerto Rico."
DeleteTruly, if anyone wants fake history, conspiracies, etc. for free, youtube is the place. It's mind boggling what's on there and the amount of it. There's already a shit load of Las Vegas shooting conspiracy shows on there.
DeleteSDL
WBAI has been known to sell DVDs of stuff that's free on YouTube. Of course, Faker Knight frequently "produced" his 5 o'clock Shadow yawn by simply running something he found on YouTube.
DeleteApropos fakery, YouTube has quite a bit of John Henri Clarke and "Dr. Ben" crap that Bates likes to feed to the gullible Remnants.
Tomorrow, October 4th, is the big court shindig, isn't it? I'm sure the 861 signatures on their petition will take them far...
ReplyDeleteSDL
Their Halloween halos and pigeon-feather snap-on wings will be a big help. Mimi, of course, will sport her vintage Aunt Jemima costume. I don't know about Bates' furry Kong suit, but the Blacks' Goldust Twins tableau sounds like a winner. Were I to go there, I'd go as a quill and dump 139 fake signatures at the judge's feet..
DeleteSending prayers for the END of the station - station was and is full of thieves - Marksman, White, Knight, Murillo, Keyes, Maitland, Goodman - hope they all GO TO HELL!
ReplyDeleteIf they go away , where would the new york area get their daily overdose of slavery coverage that
ReplyDeletethe"community" is clamoring for ?