[Sfbay-audio] report from new college panel discussion

[mark burdett]

I spoke on a panel this morning @ new college re: pacifica & indymedia..
One thing that came up was that the new kpfa general manager actually 
supposedly supports having an indymedia show on kpfa (note this wasn't 
something i suggested).  but what also came up was that the new g.m. -- 
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0132095/ -- doesn't sound so great, being a 
typical hollywood liberal producer type.  also he was quite defensive 
during the audience question portion of the panel, raising the tension 
in the room more than a notch.

there seem to be a lot of people who would like to get more "younger 
people" on air and improve the news..  but the whole kpfa environment 
sounds more toxic than ever.

some of our most talented and dedicated folks aren't really around 
(e.g. sunny and sarah) but if they were, and we could put together a 
collective of folks actually willing to take on a kpfa show.. who 
knows..

I know that some people, particularly sunny, have been fed up with 
trying to work w/ indymedia but i still think there's a lot of positive 
potential for connections between indybay.org, fault lines, street 
level tv, indymedia network and a wider radio audience....

Food for thought.  In the meantime, everyone put up your pirate 
transmitters and take back the airwaves!

--mark