Friday, February 8, 2019

How colleagues see today's Pacifica



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READER COMMENTS - Posted: 08 Feb 2019 12:00 AM PST


Our coverage of Executive Director Maxie Jackson’s comments at the January 31, 2019, meeting of the Pacifica Foundation’s National Board  brought over 1,000 page views and several comments. Readers had mixed reactions: 

Gregg McVicar

• Gregg McVicar, the host of UnderCurrents and a digital audio pioneer said he supports Jackson’s proposed changes in Pacifica’s system or governance: 


McVicarMaxie (and you) nailed it with the Pacifica assessment.  Likewise, I have the utmost respect for Maxie who totally knows what he’s doing, and it shows.


• A major market programmer and former PRPD board member who requested confidentiality wrote:


Confidential:  Enjoyed your piece today on Maxie speaking truth to power – but I would have liked to have gotten some sense as to how people reacted to what he was saying on that conference call. He is absolutely correct that the governance set up is crazy and needs to be changed – but I can’t imagine this board accepting that it is failing. What a mess. 

• An anonymous reader told us:

Anonymous: Jackson’s “analysis of the situation” is not that impressive. It’s been obvious for a long time - but is also not the full story. While there’s no dispute for me that the boards, who do have ultimate authority, have been overwhelmingly destructive since 2002, the flip side is that the stations’ management is not blameless for the damage they’ve done. Getting “talented” people on the boards is not as easy as it sounds. There have been good people but they are driven away by the various bad actors.

The stations’ were also enabled by the poor financial controls at the national management level. who have gotten inside

Steve Robinson


• Steve Robinson, former GM of WFMT, Chicago and longtime system manager was skeptical about Pacifica’s willingness to change:

Robinson:  “...Pacifica must change its system of governance. “ 

That’s hilarious.  

2 comments:

  1. Pacifica is Pacificans.

    Their only interest is their ineffective ineffectual rancorous embittered divisive strident/transparent 'left/progressive''advocacy', having long long ago abandoned and betrayed the 'bourgeois' wide foundational principles and goals, which in the political realm focused on open discussion and debate rather than 'politically correct' propaganda, and which had led to some success and some influence in Pacifica's first decades.

    They are dedicated only to their strident political 'mission', which has led quite simply nowhere for at least forty years.

    To that, and their self-perpetuation.

    Thus their absolute obscurity and irrelevance.

    If Maxie is able to find a few external rivers to direct through these Augean Stables he might have some success. Failing that, he will fail, as have others before him.

    In a sense one wishes him well, corporate jargon and buzzwords aside, but who would give odds?

    The most recent PNB Meeting was devoted overwhelmingly to bitching and snarling about the current extended elections, already months late and $50,000 over budget.

    It's all about governance... of the ungovernable.

    Of a group, an assemblage, a gathering as it were, composed overwhelmingly of talentless sixth-rate scum.

    Scheming, snarling, and clawing at one another in the darkness, the ignorance, the base purpose of their souls, their 'ideals'.

    Meanwhile, in the world, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and others are making actual headway.

    Pacifica and Pacificans... not so much.

    Too busy with process, elections, motions, bylaws, perpetual personal struggles...

    I am, I suppose, arguably too kind...

    ~ 'indigopirate'

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    1. More and more that becomes, arguably, two of a too kind.

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