From: Phil Osborn (philosborn2001@yahoo.com)
Date: Mon Aug 05 2002 - 21:59:11 MDT
Thanx, Frederick Mann (fm1@amug.org) for your
responses and a good set of links. Re the "... The
fantastic Pacifica archive
of past shows and interviews and lectures are an
amazing record of free speech in action" bit,
unfortunately, altho there is a lot of truth to that,
it is also the case that much of the archive has been
trashed over the years when various groups decided to
erase those parts of the past that they no longer
considered PC.
This happened recently before this last coup,
according to the official archivist, and it also
happened in the early '80's, when a Marxist/feminist
by the name of Claire Spark and her crew took over the
station and erased, among other things, one-of-a-kind
interviews with primary feminist sources, who were
seen as not radical enough. When they were finally
physically thrown out of the station (and this was
apparently a nationwide conspiracy by this faction, as
virtually all the other Pacifica stations had similar
experiences, the same slogans, tactics, etc.) they
held a rally at some auditorium in Santa Monica.
I went to this to hear their side of things, just to
be fair, as I was thoroughly disgusted with what I had
observed them do over the past couple years. There
were people at the rally advocating using truck bombs
on the station, now that the evil right wing
conspirators had seized from "the people." I believe
that Clair advised them that it was not yet time for
that. The "evil right wing conspirators" were of
course considerably left of center themselves.
Right now, however, as they are apparently in the
process of turning major decision authority over to
grass roots listener access groups, in the name of
democracizing the network, there is a real
opportunity, as I mentioned, for people other than the
PC "progressive" crew to get airtime. Major slots of
time exist late Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights up
through Monday morning in the wee hours, filled only
by endless music, mostly the unlistenable punk rock
variety last time I checked.
Here's one possible show: Talks and discussions with
listeners both by voice phone and via on-line chat on
the general subject of futurism, with guests from
Forsight, ALCOR, whoever is willing to be awake at
those hours, inviting listeners to find out what is
really coming down the pike. I think such a program
could be really valuable, as there is so much
misinformation and disinformation.
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