If the "General Manager" is befuddled and uninformed, whom should the listener remnants turn to for answers?
It might interest the truly concerned to hear that there was a commercial for MNN on WBAI just before this sorry Reimers ramble began. Subtlety is not practiced by these bozos.
What's the real message from KPFA re: Pacifica's future? Cut off deadbeat BAI once and for all. Why should we continue to pay for their ongoing fuckups?
ReplyDeleteReimers blatantly lied when asked by a caller if the WBAI employee named Ama [who is supposed to be handling premium issues] was a paid employee. Reimer's mumbled that she "was not" being paid and then later on cleaned up his statement by saying she "was" being paid by the station. A very awkward moment and total waste of two hours with Bates chiming in by phone to speak; showing that he and Reimers are clearly having serious differences in viewpoints.
ReplyDeleteforensic audit NOW!
DeleteMaybe the ultimate problem is really the listeners. When you listen to the callers to these things, you realize most of them are simply moronic sheep.
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Exactly what I have been observing. I have said that the BAI bozos dumbed down the audience by feeding it all that pap. I still think that is the case, but I am inclined to believe that people like that lady who never receives the products she pays for in the installment plan were ignorant before they tuned in. This one, If I recall correctly, came over when WWRL turned white.
DeleteWBAI is now a surrogate for bad black radio in NY. Those stations never appealed to intelligent blacks, but WBAI used to. Crappy shows like "Haitian All-Starz" and Hopper's Saturday night scam fill vacancies in crania. I guess you heard the West Indian who called and complained to Reimers that there was this Irish show—clearly, he thought it was a misfit on a station that he expects to be serving black people. I don't blame him for getting it wrong, because that comes from jerks like Haskins, the "professor", Bates, Prescod, et al, who convey their own narrow definition of "community".
Still other jerks and Neo-dummies like Mitchel and Mimi fail to see that they are drinking the Kenya KoolAid. Anyone who tells Mimi that she's not black better have 311 or a local ambulance service on the phone.
WWRL didn't turn white, but changed format to Mexican pop music. As I said many times before, an all black political station is a failure, and Pacifica should take note of that. In fact, when WWRL changed format, there was absolutely no noise about it. No one cared, even their handful of listeners.
DeleteYes, I heard the West Indian fellow. I laughed at him when he talked about the Irish show. I know a Protestant in Northern Ireland (whose father was a big shot in the anti-IRA task force) who hates the show because, he says, IRA sympathizers there listen to the show online. That must be WBAI's one true international show.
The Remnants aren't dumbed down but already dumb. Have you noticed how uneducated most of them sound? They are just dummies who found a station that feeds their preconceptions. Anyone of intelligence is gone, and not buying premiums they never get.
Reimers was right about one thing when he said WBAI was a dogmatic station... a dogma that drives anyone but morons away.
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Thank you, SDL, I stand corrected re WWRL. I guess tthe woman no longer found the station black enough—that she went over to WBAI is telling.
DeleteSmall footnote. WWRL didn't last as a Mexican pop station, so they later changed to their current format of Indian pop music.
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Same thing, actually—these one-track minds brought several hues into their bosom when they discovered that the entire world really does not look like them. A mind is a terrible thing to waste via indoctrination.
DeleteI was shocked at how many times he was asked a question and didn't know the answer. When a board meeting was. Whether a loan had been approved. Good grief, he's the general manager. He's supposed to be running the place.
ReplyDeleteYes, he did a splendid job of underscoring his cluelessness.
DeleteIsn’t it interesting that they somehow always manage to have more than one active phone line when thhey need to? Some of us have been curious as to Bates’ recent lack of visibility, but there he was... listening in on a two-way phone.
Hilarious. Twit Wit Radio episode: Breaking Pacifica on KPFA (Broadcast January 7 2018) https://archives.kpfa.org/data/20180107-Sun1830.mp3
ReplyDeletePacifica's weekly political satire show speaking ridicule to power since 2011
I catch Twit Wit every week and love it. Sure, sometimes it's a "hit or miss" show, but much more hit than miss.
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Bring back the Christmas Coop Comedy Players (CCCP) and the Altantica Network!
DeleteFrankly, I thought the CCCP was missing an important ingredient: humor.
DeleteTue, though its hard to have humor when locks are changed and you are face to face with repression. Irony and sarcasm, with a dash of Valkyries, lightened the tenor (pun intended).
DeleteMerry Martin Luther Kingmas to everybody , and a Happy black history month !
ReplyDeleteAnd remember , buy black in this holiday season. haha
Please don't insult the memory of MLK, BAI does it well enough.
DeleteI think the biggest insult came from scammer Robert Knight when he—through his birdbrain PR woman—let it be known that he might be MLK's love child! That was a good one. :)
DeleteI don't know if they're back on the air, but they're still streaming to a few dozen people, trying to sell them Martin Luther King, Jr. as a product. They call it a tribute, but it's just more marketing for the bozos of WBAI.
ReplyDeleteThey are asking $100—these clowns have no sense of right and wrong. Some idiot named Mark Torres is now with local racist Bashir, lying and trying to convince that handful of listeners that only on WBAI will you hear these recordings. That's such BS!
It isn't just racism that lives on at WBAI, the station is also the home of chronic deception and lies bigger than any you will hear disguised elsewhere.
Sorry to say, the morons have reshaped this into an embarrassing, disgusting mockery of what once was a significant radio station.
Has anyone noticed that Democracy Now has become a black-issue focused show?
ReplyDeleteGoodman devotes her entire show to the likes of Eric Gardner's sister.
The show is unlistenable--like everything else on WBAI.
Noticed a long time ago .
ReplyDeleteI think Reimers laid eggs in her brain.
No fan of Trump, but I wish Reimers was on the deportation list!
ReplyDeleteGermany probably wouldn't want those awful people back, but Siberia sounds good.
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