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Following the station's Marcel Marceau weekend marathon, Berthold lunched. It would seem that the entré was artificial hope, and that he pigged out.
One wonders why—having shuffled to loaded deck—he gave in to Linda Perry's shamelessly blatant, persistent pandering efforts.
Chris, don't post dangerously funny stuff like this. I almost hurt myself laughing!
ReplyDeleteThis is a 50KW station in the middle of the FM band and he's proud to have 170, 129 and 225 online listeners to various shows? Are you fucking kidding me? Has he had a recent head injury? This is beyond pathetic. The one "interesting" thing is Null being credited with 129 listeners. You know, Null, the hottest thing on the net...
The WBAI Buddy program ain't working out, eh? Guess what. It never does!
Keep lunching on the grid, no matter how putrid it tastes.
SDLaughing
I understand that Null did some sort of anti-locate commentary on his own streamer when WBAI was in Coventry. Haven't been able to find it.
DeleteFrom Columbia Journalism Review:
ReplyDeleteAfter WNYC, Leonard Lopate’s return to WBAI is met with protest
https://www.cjr.org/analysis/wnyc-leonard-lopate.php
Besides being too busy to read his own letters, he can't do arithmetic: if 225 for Lopate is the heights, then "56% higher than our highest show to date" means Lopate topped 144 (225 x (100/156)). That programme is Democracy Now!, yet he says its number is "about 170". He-of-the-Augsburger just can't help himself exaggerating even when it's meaningless. SDL cites the online listening numbers: 129, 170, 225. The letter celebrated these: "the response was fantastic".
ReplyDeleteHe-of-the-Augsburger concluded, "Lopate at Large [...] will not only help us increase the listenship of all other shows at WBAI but it will also help us get CPB fund [...] CPB grants are based on how many listeners we have as well as other criteria". A station high of 225 online? Even double it, 450? Clicks at the archive? How many are listening to WBAI? As he says in the Columbia article (thanks for the link), "[y]ou know at WBAI, I don’t think we have 5,000 people listening for the whole week". And CPB support? Jesu. As his namesake put it, support as the rope of the hanging man.
The completion of the fiscal year 2016 audit allowed Pacifica to file its latest 990 Federal tax return, using those records to count for the calendar year 2015. (Yes, they're late for 2016.) As I noted in a comment on this blog, 21 June, the day Pacifica published the auditor's report & the 990, the latter shows that in the year to 30 September 2016, He-of-the-Augsburger received the second highest "reportable compensation from the organization" of $85k, & the highest "estimated amount of other compensation from the organization & related organizations" of $32 127 (PDF pages, 7-9). A total of $117 127, so $10k pm, from Pacifica listeners, WBAI & elsewhere.
http://pacifica.org/documents/financial/tax_2016.pdf
Tom must have appreciated getting a copy of this latest email from the fairly rewarded Great Helmsman, Tom kept in the loop-of-the-loopy-loopies.
Once again Guns and Butter is pushing anti-Semitism. This time, the guest is a Holocaust-denier, who also took a swipe at the "Hollywood Jews" who supported Stalin in the early 1950's.
ReplyDeleteHi, off-topic I know, but just so no-one would think you're casting an unwarranted slur, please explain, with link & time-points. After all, an increasing amount of false charges of racism towards people said to be Jews have been laid since very late 2008. Thanx.
DeleteThd guest was Alan Sabrosky. The show aired on July 18, 2018. It can be found on the KPFA website.
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DeleteHi Jara,
DeleteI’m always grateful for your reports. They are informative, witty, and entertaining.
I must agree with Anonymous about Bonnie’s guest yesterday. He was a Jew hating Holocaust denier.
I’m an anti-Zionist, anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian, BDS supporting Pagan.
My ancestors were Ukrainian Jewish peasants who lived in shekels and were harassed by the Cossacks who raided and pillaged Jewish homes on Friday nights when they put out their expensive silverware in honor of the Sabbath. The Communist Revolution was a great event--although eventually the Ancien Regime, led by the U.S., succeeded in destroying it.
I think Guns and Butter is the best show on Pacifica—along with Behind The News. Bonnie Faulkner is an excellent interviewer. However, even Bonnie can make bad judgements; yesterday’s show—and guest, are an example of this.
Given the topic of this thread, rather than you leaving things at the level of name-calling it would be best if you give a link to your evidenced arguments, arguments whose putative conclusions are the serious assertions you make. Alleging that the Pacifica Foundation is promoting racism – "pushing anti-Semitism" – shouldn't be left as name-calling. Indeed, wouldn't your allegation be of interest to the Federal Communications Commission & the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, as well as law-enforcement? All concerned deserve seeing your evidenced arguments.
ReplyDeleteLike any rational person, I'd hate to think you're pushing not an opposition to racism towards Jews but pushing a spurious conflation, trying to present opposition to certain actions by Jewish-Israeli colonists & by the Israeli state as being anti-Semitic.
—To my displeasure and my shame, because I have some Jewish relatives -- none of whom is Zionist -- a large majority of American Jews give their allegiance to a foreign country. They may have American citizenship, but their allegiance is to Israel. And as I said in the piece, this is a form of political bigamy that is every bit as dishonest as marital bigamy. And marital bigamy is -- you know -- I'm not married now, but when I was, loyalty to my spouse was absolute. It has to be there. I can look and say "Ah ha! There is Farah Fawcett." You know -- and I could admire someone out there, but I didn't give that person my allegiance. And there's a difference between admiring from a distance and giving allegiance to that thing, and it's the same with a country...
DeleteSome of my relatives are German, some are Irish. All of them have a measure of allegiance to those cultures, but it's not a political allegiance, it's a social allegiance. It's like - we're gonna stand up on St. Patty's Day or we're gonna stand up on Oktoberfest and we'll celebrate this, and we're proud of being German or Irish or whatever it happens to be. But none of us gives our allegiance to Ireland or Germany. Jews do.
http://adamholland.blogspot.com/2010/05/alan-sabrosky-large-majority-of-us-jews.html