tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486287910626602438.post4591096299772483273..comments2023-09-08T12:08:39.523-04:00Comments on WBAI: Pacifica figures to ponder...Chris Albertsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12056345320709233401noreply@blogger.comBlogger43125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486287910626602438.post-63089825457881283802016-10-24T01:38:13.536-04:002016-10-24T01:38:13.536-04:00I have not come across anything that belies your o...I have not come across anything that belies your observation.Chris Albertsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12056345320709233401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486287910626602438.post-53948276365722207732016-10-24T01:33:05.013-04:002016-10-24T01:33:05.013-04:00The depths of Paul Gorman’s shallowness were and p...The depths of Paul Gorman’s shallowness were and presumably still are effectively immeasurable.<br /><br />~ ‘indigopirate’Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486287910626602438.post-8412530127651904862016-10-23T23:55:05.230-04:002016-10-23T23:55:05.230-04:00Here's a link to 33 of his WBAI interviews:
h...Here's a link to 33 of his WBAI interviews:<br /><br />http://www.lexhixon.com/conversations-in-the-spirit/<br /><br />I think Gorman was in love, because I don't hear the saintly figure he describes.Chris Albertsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12056345320709233401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486287910626602438.post-36043422992950193112016-10-23T23:41:34.165-04:002016-10-23T23:41:34.165-04:00Yes, now I remember you mentioning this some time ...Yes, now I remember you mentioning this some time ago. <br /><br />I looked up Hixon but still can't remember anything about him besides his name. I guess I never found his show interesting enough to listen to, since I don't care for spiritual stuff. At least give me UFOs for some fun.<br /><br />https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lex_Hixon<br /><br />SDLAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486287910626602438.post-68611630396443304422016-10-23T21:27:44.418-04:002016-10-23T21:27:44.418-04:00Racism seems to have clouded your mind, whoever yo...Racism seems to have clouded your mind, whoever you are.Chris Albertsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12056345320709233401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486287910626602438.post-69420967663298018142016-10-23T17:41:55.599-04:002016-10-23T17:41:55.599-04:00@SDL When Chris Koch pulled a fast one and tried t...@SDL When Chris Koch pulled a fast one and tried to discredit the station, we—"the good guys" and a listener group rented the ballroom of the Diplomat Hotel for an open meeting where people could voice their views on what was happening to WBAI. We invited Millspaugh and his new cronies (Steve Post, Josephson, et al) as well as the entire staff to join us and speak out. We would be recording it and they could air it, as long as they did so in its entirety.<br /><br />A few days before the meeting I received a call from Gorman (whom I didn't know). He said wished to interview me for the Village Voice. I agreed and went to his apartment the next day. We hadn't gotten far into the interview when I began to suspect that this was a set-up by the station. I cut it short.<br /><br />On the evening of the meeting, I spotted Gorman seated in the front row, as close to the stage as one could get. He had his coat on his lap, obviously wrapped around something, so I approached him and asked what he was carrying. When he finally bared part of it, I recognized that it was one of WBAI's two portable reel-to-reel machines. I told him that he could stay, but we would hold on to the machine until it was over. He gave me an argument about "free speech" and all that jazz, so I told him not to worry, because we would make our own audio available (I had brought in my own B&O machine for that purpose.<br /><br />When Gorman continued to give me a hard time, I called on our security people to get him and WBAI's machine out of there. Flo Kennedy, one of our scheduled speakers, had made an arrangement for the Black Panthers to protect us! Gorman took one look at the two guys who approached him, and promptly left.<br /><br />I still have the tape of that meeting, in full, but I recorded it at the slowest speed and on four tracks, so I can't play it. It was quite an evening—Koch flew in from California and tried to make a dramatic moment, but it backfired when listeners started shouting at him. He and his WBAI entourage left with their tails between their legs.<br /><br />That's the short of it.... Gorman was offered a show, which I guess was his "payment". A slimy little worm he was, at least back in the late Sixties.Chris Albertsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12056345320709233401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486287910626602438.post-67595737924173656722016-10-23T17:31:25.042-04:002016-10-23T17:31:25.042-04:00Well, Gorman foolishly played "The 7 Dirty Wo...Well, Gorman foolishly played "The 7 Dirty Words" which was a selfish act of stupidity. I don't know why he wasn't canned right then and there.<br /><br />KGTAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486287910626602438.post-41380893840919466642016-10-23T17:04:10.042-04:002016-10-23T17:04:10.042-04:00Sorry KGT, I had the wrong Lynn—I was thinking of ...Sorry KGT, I had the wrong Lynn—I was thinking of Lynne Stewart. :-(Chris Albertsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12056345320709233401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486287910626602438.post-45858289891839045482016-10-23T16:57:33.776-04:002016-10-23T16:57:33.776-04:00I can't completely agree with you about Lynn. ...I can't completely agree with you about Lynn. I know all her faults, but she was fun and was the best fundraiser WBAI ever had except for Rothenberg with his Broadway tickets (I'd rather pay full price than get them from him) and Null with his brown and green mierda.<br /><br />KGTAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486287910626602438.post-9525298417448954532016-10-23T16:17:26.788-04:002016-10-23T16:17:26.788-04:00Chris, I vaguely remember something about Gorman p...Chris, I vaguely remember something about Gorman pulling a stunt at a WBAI staff meeting or something like that, maybe also some stunt(s) during the '77 fiasco. Basically, he was a company man. All I personally remember of him was a boring, rambling show I didn't pay much attention to.<br /><br />Hixon rings a bell from the late 70s, but I can't place what he did, if anything even memorable. I do remember the name, though. I'll try and remember.<br /><br />SDLAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486287910626602438.post-68997002388660505722016-10-23T15:28:24.272-04:002016-10-23T15:28:24.272-04:00I never heard of Hixon, but if he is being lionize...I never heard of Hixon, but if he is being lionized by the likes of Gorman, Coleman and Samuels, I take it with a huge grain of salt. If Hixon was all they claim he was, I think we would at least have heard him mentioned by the deluded bozos of BAI.Chris Albertsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12056345320709233401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486287910626602438.post-51826813030476773322016-10-23T15:07:07.779-04:002016-10-23T15:07:07.779-04:00I am listening to it now (archive) and I wonder wh...I am listening to it now (archive) and I wonder what Janet would think of Gorman if she knew what a devious opportunist he used to be—and may still be.Chris Albertsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12056345320709233401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486287910626602438.post-61582711762324780282016-10-23T15:03:05.919-04:002016-10-23T15:03:05.919-04:00He's lionizing Lex Hixon. I never heard him. I...He's lionizing Lex Hixon. I never heard him. I heard Lynn Samuels mention him. Is he worth veneration?<br /><br />KGTAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486287910626602438.post-74362640296709158052016-10-23T14:43:42.544-04:002016-10-23T14:43:42.544-04:00He was on Janice Coleman's show from 11-12 noo...He was on Janice Coleman's show from 11-12 noon with her "genius" husband.<br /><br />KGTAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486287910626602438.post-46553564555923490372016-10-23T14:12:47.368-04:002016-10-23T14:12:47.368-04:00I wasn't listening, but I am well familiar wit...I wasn't listening, but I am well familiar with Gorman, and he is not on my list of people to be trusted. It's a long story that I won't go into—suffice it to say that he did some very underhanded things to get airtime on WBAI. That was back in the late Sixties.Chris Albertsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12056345320709233401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486287910626602438.post-3964497267769263162016-10-23T11:58:33.375-04:002016-10-23T11:58:33.375-04:00Was that Paul Gorman? He sounds awful. He has a na...Was that Paul Gorman? He sounds awful. He has a nasal stuttering halting voice which I couldn't recognize and whom I listened to every Sat a.m. for years. He either had a stroke or has Parkinson's d. <br />KGTAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486287910626602438.post-39102069916705397692016-10-23T11:48:08.450-04:002016-10-23T11:48:08.450-04:00Many thanks for the info. At $300K you have to won...Many thanks for the info. At $300K you have to wonder how many listeners the subcarrier stations have. I bet the Catholic ones on WBAI have more listeners than WBAI does.<br /><br />SDLAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486287910626602438.post-43408063698411714232016-10-22T20:24:27.472-04:002016-10-22T20:24:27.472-04:00Thank you. My hope is that things get better for e...Thank you. My hope is that things get better for everyone and people can begin to focus on the real enemies. I've known managerial and supervisory people (all racial identities) who've been fired from companies for being too competent because they were intolerant of mediocrity. For a person, like Reimers, who happens to be black and incompetent to remain unscathed by a mostly white Pacifica management suggests something sinister is invisibly afoot. I see Berthold Reimers and Tony Bates as Trojan Horses at this point.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486287910626602438.post-27079525192192962032016-10-22T19:54:57.485-04:002016-10-22T19:54:57.485-04:00Sorry to hear that people are hassling you so much...Sorry to hear that people are hassling you so much. Hope it gets better.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486287910626602438.post-10799469658039515882016-10-22T18:41:22.333-04:002016-10-22T18:41:22.333-04:00Thanks for the info. Do any other Pacifica station...Thanks for the info. Do any other Pacifica stations rent out their subcarriers? If so, to whom?<br /><br />SDLAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486287910626602438.post-21558223946427261682016-10-22T15:50:16.171-04:002016-10-22T15:50:16.171-04:00Subcarrier rental fees must be collected by the li...Subcarrier rental fees must be collected by the license holder by law. They are billed and collected by the Pacifica national office and are recorded in that section of the income statement. Tracynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486287910626602438.post-38154613040884047222016-10-22T14:46:00.153-04:002016-10-22T14:46:00.153-04:00WBAI's "Equal Time For Free Thought"... WBAI's "Equal Time For Free Thought" is on now pushing the book "Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome" as a premium. I find it amazing how people like Joy DeGruy and Tim Wise can make livings spewing this emotionally charged "intellectual" B.S.. I am black and have lived in different areas of the U.S. and it is my own people, including family members, who have given me the most problems and created all kinds of obstacles for me both privately and professionally. Ironically, "so-called" white people were the ones who have given me the most help. Hatred, injustice, class differences, racism, etc. exists amongst all racial groups.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486287910626602438.post-9171110362770628782016-10-22T14:04:29.460-04:002016-10-22T14:04:29.460-04:00Thank you, I am trying to fix it.Thank you, I am trying to fix it.Chris Albertsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12056345320709233401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486287910626602438.post-61655499978559671762016-10-22T14:02:32.398-04:002016-10-22T14:02:32.398-04:00If I remember correctly, Sheehan's Christic In...If I remember correctly, Sheehan's Christic Institute had some ties with that nut Bo Gritz over drugs & CIA stuff.<br /><br />SDLAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486287910626602438.post-36391732388884398152016-10-22T13:51:24.483-04:002016-10-22T13:51:24.483-04:00Why does he appear/dominate such a station as WBAI...Why does he appear/dominate such a station as WBAI has become? Why does he give "air" time to Kathy Davis' psychobabble? I could go on....Chris Albertsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12056345320709233401noreply@blogger.com