tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486287910626602438.post8333767561135199625..comments2023-09-08T12:08:39.523-04:00Comments on WBAI: As the curtain drops: Pacifica in Exile newsletter - Nov. 2015Chris Albertsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12056345320709233401noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486287910626602438.post-82072769424219335392015-11-18T22:04:21.669-05:002015-11-18T22:04:21.669-05:00Hysterically, the archives are the one thing worth...Hysterically, the archives are the one thing worth preserving. If it weren't for Pacifica being involved, I may be inclined to send some dough. After all, the archives probably have lots of good old stuff in there.<br /><br />Oh, well. Getting my radio show in gear. I expect a January launch. I have a real professional doing up a bunch of very different sort of jingles (not the nice ones you're used to from commercial radio), I'm doing some audio editing of my intro and outro, mic and accessories are set up on the computer, learning Audacity, QSL cards at the graphic artists, etc. Soon to record the most aggressive, kick ass shows your ears will bleed to. As I like to say, at 49 years old I am too young to know better and too old to give a shit.<br /><br />SDLAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486287910626602438.post-64430232283797125302015-11-18T16:07:07.044-05:002015-11-18T16:07:07.044-05:00It's a back-to-the-future thang. Wagner had hi...It's a back-to-the-future thang. Wagner had his cycle, so did Lance, and so does Maytag, but Pacifica.tops them all. It's sometimes called déjåvucasting.<br /><br />Seriously, with all the many hours that are in the Pacifica Archive, one would think that they could come up with a couple of days without resorting to the looping that seems to be going on.Chris Albertsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12056345320709233401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486287910626602438.post-13037322398426772062015-11-18T15:55:31.017-05:002015-11-18T15:55:31.017-05:00The archives... sounds like a begathon combined wi...The archives... sounds like a begathon combined with a repeatathon . <br /> could it be a rebegarepeatathon or something like that . lol .<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486287910626602438.post-69062836301851959932015-11-18T11:23:42.114-05:002015-11-18T11:23:42.114-05:00I am more inclined to attribute their selective co...I am more inclined to attribute their selective condemnation to the fact that all their twists and lies have neatly painted them into a corner.Chris Albertsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12056345320709233401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486287910626602438.post-40404284651976485572015-11-18T11:20:38.487-05:002015-11-18T11:20:38.487-05:00They feel it's the same thing, that the ISIS P...They feel it's the same thing, that the ISIS Paris group were slaves to white western domination and that this was a righteous slave uprising and revolt, so continue with the slavery reparations schtick.<br /><br />KGTAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486287910626602438.post-52620144999753413062015-11-17T22:36:49.162-05:002015-11-17T22:36:49.162-05:00Exactly. A few hours a week of it is fine, among o...Exactly. A few hours a week of it is fine, among other topics and programming, but not a continuous bludgeoning. When the Paris attacks happened, these nit wits couldn't even get into the modern world and do a break in on the slavery/reparations programming to tell their listeners of an important event, but that would have necessitated their educating the dummies that still listen as to where Paris is even located...<br /><br />SDL<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486287910626602438.post-85894586744387482412015-11-17T19:56:50.621-05:002015-11-17T19:56:50.621-05:00Yup!Yup!Chris Albertsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12056345320709233401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486287910626602438.post-12230033542599373552015-11-17T19:52:45.603-05:002015-11-17T19:52:45.603-05:00I hate to shit on bai's parade here but, very ...I hate to shit on bai's parade here but, very few people really want to hear slavery, what martin luther king said 60 years ago , reparations , jim crow , ferguson ,etc etc... IT'S FUCKING BORING and COMES OFF AS WHINING !<br /> Now i didn't say it never happened , mostly whites did it to blacks , lasted a long time , wasn't terrible, because it was .<br /> But NOBODY WANTS TO HEAR IT , BECAUSE ITS FUCKING BORING and IT COMES OFF AS WHINING! <br />And if you don't believe me , Then why is there no listeners left . That is the number one reason this station SUCKS! <br />They think they are going to attract young people with this stuff , think again . Most young people could give 2 shits about what happended 2 weeks ago , no less 50 years or 200 years ago . Get Real ! Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486287910626602438.post-71079755022264075022015-11-17T18:42:35.194-05:002015-11-17T18:42:35.194-05:00I agree that a network-wide Pacifica fund drive wo...I agree that a network-wide Pacifica fund drive would be a natural, yet I doubt if it will make more than a dent in this empty bucket.<br /><br />The clods in charge have warped priorities and suffer from proprietaryosis, each one laying clim to their own turf, whether tat be their local station or show. You are so right when you label this a foundation-wide problem.<br /><br />Better than having the five stations shake their tin cups locally would be well-coordinated effort headed by professionals. Leaving this task in he hands of Pacifica's amateurs simply cannot work. Real development directors would immediately see the value in the Pacifica stations' history of being a springboard for some very successful people. They are no longer interested, for reasons we all know, but a real professional endeavor, accompanied by strong signs of program improvement could attract the disenchanted.<br /><br />Momentum needs to be built up and the involvement of recognizable, respected people will automatically capture the interest of other media—is it once did.<br /><br />The money is out there, but who wants to support such pap as dominates WBAI's weekly schedule, for example. No one in their right mind.Chris Albertsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12056345320709233401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486287910626602438.post-49249208377347717232015-11-17T17:29:11.616-05:002015-11-17T17:29:11.616-05:00Now asking for money for the archives, which most ...Now asking for money for the archives, which most Pacifica listeners probably don't even understand what it is. I wonder when the next WBAI beg-a-thon is. I'm amazed they just don't do a network wide save Pacifica beg-a-thon. Drain the suckers for all you can get, right?<br /><br />SDLAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486287910626602438.post-16339895282813829552015-11-15T21:58:31.754-05:002015-11-15T21:58:31.754-05:00No need to bother picking over any particular poin...No need to bother picking over any particular points, since they all lead to the same conclusion. Too many of these people simply have no understanding, or do but wish to avoid it, of the problems their playground is facing. They'd rather pretend it's the early 1970s and they are some tiny left wing group who are going to argue the finer points of a revolutionary doctrine, whose time has already come and gone. We really need a documentary film made of these nuts, so future generations can laugh at them. We don't have too much time remaining to get it on film, you know.<br /><br />SDLAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486287910626602438.post-18232485177709389132015-11-15T10:35:18.875-05:002015-11-15T10:35:18.875-05:00All the ingredients are there and Mr. Bankruptcy w...All the ingredients are there and Mr. Bankruptcy will probably soon make an entrance, arm in arm with Madame Finis, the proverbial "fat lady."<br /><br />Of course, WBAI has been MORALLY bankrupt for several years. Chris Albertsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12056345320709233401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486287910626602438.post-60644138000773005492015-11-15T10:20:49.908-05:002015-11-15T10:20:49.908-05:00Funny how every time the Foundation or any station...Funny how every time the Foundation or any station shoots itself in the foot, some of the culprits cry "conspiracy!"<br /><br />Really, even the best covert operations couldn't have done any better than what we're seeing now: race, generational and other factional fights are destroying whatever pure-and-simple mismanagement haven't. Justine Valinottihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10852069587181432102noreply@blogger.com