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2014-03-24 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Leftist Pacifica Radio Sliding Into the Abyss

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Posted by Pappy 2014-03-24 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 the LATimes missed a key issue here

Pacifica is fighting for the same leftist niche as several other media orgs, e.g., MSNBC, PBS, BBC and the niche that is slightly less left is even more crowded with CBS, CNN, NBC, ABC, the Wash Post, the NYTimes and the LATimes itself.

Posted by lord garth 2014-03-24 00:17|| 2014-03-24 00:17|| Front Page Top

#2 LAWeekly, not the LA Times.

Posted by Pappy 2014-03-24 02:14|| 2014-03-24 02:14|| Front Page Top

#3 Can't happen too soon. Although, we'll probably get a bill in congress to protect the endangered radio loon.

Posted by ed in texas 2014-03-24 07:24|| 2014-03-24 07:24|| Front Page Top

#4 MSNBC, PBS, BBC and the niche that is slightly less left is even more crowded with CBS, CNN, NBC, ABC, the Wash Post, the NYTimes and the LATimes itself.

All whose bulk viewership/readership are in the demographic of the 'large die off'.

Posted by Procopius2k 2014-03-24 08:21|| 2014-03-24 08:21|| Front Page Top

#5 Bye Bye Pacifica, down the drain you go.

Oh, and you won't be missed, because nobody cared when you were here....

Posted by Blackbeard McGurque9401 2014-03-24 11:34|| 2014-03-24 11:34|| Front Page Top

#6 They were always in the abyss. It's just that their ratings have joined them there.

Posted by charger 2014-03-24 11:45|| 2014-03-24 11:45|| Front Page Top

#7 If you went by their donation requests their biggest supporters were Barbara Streisand, Sidney Poitier and Hanoi Jane.

Nuff Said.

Posted by 3dc 2014-03-24 15:50|| 2014-03-24 15:50|| Front Page Top

#8 I just tuned in to WBAI New York- Trevor from Amhurst is talking about his experience with microaggression and racism.

Posted by Grunter 2014-03-24 17:30|| 2014-03-24 17:30|| Front Page Top

#9 Hard to get very excited about a food fight among the leftinista staff--pass the popcorn. Left-wing radio has just never caught on like conservative talk radio--just not the interest there. Meanwhile the left continues its attempts to control, curb, and muzzle conservative talk radio.

Posted by JohnQC 2014-03-24 19:39|| 2014-03-24 19:39|| Front Page Top

#10 Pacifica is fighting for the same leftist niche as several other media orgs

An ecological view - interesting way to look at the situation. At one time, Pacifica and friends were peddling something you couldn't get anywhere else. Now it's all over the place. MSNBC is just Pacifica with better video.

Amusing to see Pacifica has devolved into some sort of hippie commune civil war.

Posted by SteveS 2014-03-24 21:18|| 2014-03-24 21:18|| Front Page Top

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