Just as we thought Pacifica's brand new iED/Miracle-maker, Tom Livingston was vaporware, here he is at a PNB Strategic Planning Committee meeting.
Framed by numerous innocuous mumblings, Mr. Livingston actually did speak, and indigo did not miss a word or nuance:
‘One of the ideas we’ve sort of moved on from…’
Fuck the arts, in all their forms, fuck education in all its forms, fuck concern for the commonweal, for the common interest, and fuck conversation across positions and perspectives…
Fuck all that bourgeois and petty-bourgeois crap…!
This is about The Revolution…!
The sole question that remains, for Pacifica, is whether The Mission is to be The Voice of the Left, or The Voice of the Voiceless.
‘Deep questions’ that matter deeply to Pacificans.
‘Deep questions’ they have failed to articulate for lo these many decades.
Which are their obsessions still.
That, and the vanity of access to air to which no one listens.
So many paths to failure for the talentless, the obsessive, the narcissists with no one to listen, no one to love them.
To the ramparts!
~ ‘indigopirate’
The ‘Strategic Planning’ Meeting in Full Length, in Full Glory
He brings up some good points. He sees no consensus regarding the mission of Pacifica. He talked about how budgets at public radio stations have increased since 1997 while pacifica station budgets remain stagnant. He talked about the need for a different model for membership. He said a
ReplyDeletemature station get 1/3 of its revenue from onair fundraising. The average gift is about $100 and fundraising should not be more than 20 days a year. He also noted that fundraising is not necessarily related to the mission. He's talking about you Brady in case you were wondering.
You throw the bums out, the legal obligations remain. Current schemes being offered would slowly rebuild Pacifica, and not counter the growing debts (ESRT, pensions, Commons rent, and reptilian mutations!
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