[Sfbay-audio] Re: [Ecr] report from new college panel discussion

[mark burdett]

Rupert posted it to indybay but maybe not to the calendar.
Ana came into town from NYC for it (she's staying at Ali's)

--mark

On 04 Dec 2004, at 20:22, Lisa wrote:

> Hey  mark,
>
> Was this a public event? It would have been nice to
> have known that this was happening,... doesn't seem to
> be on the calendar.
>
> lisa
>
>
> --- mark burdett <mark at indymedia.org> wrote:
>
>> 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
>>
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