tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2600560384355436278.post2983401490177710326..comments2024-02-24T15:19:02.095-08:00Comments on SPARK NEWS: THE TRUE STORY OF HOW AMY GOODMAN BECAME THE OWNER OF “DEMOCRACY NOW!”Ken Mills Agency, LLChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00792966356989583664noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2600560384355436278.post-45322329167383179622019-01-19T01:45:27.685-08:002019-01-19T01:45:27.685-08:00Well the least Amy could do is re name the show Hy...Well the least Amy could do is re name the show Hypocrisy Now!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17834193818249946121noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2600560384355436278.post-67922673548258426222018-02-23T13:51:41.779-08:002018-02-23T13:51:41.779-08:00She didn't get rich?? Are you serious??!! This...She didn't get rich?? Are you serious??!! This woman has profited millions of dollars from her duplicitous power plays and outright manipulation of the "useful idiot" class.<br />Progressives are equally capable of deceit and manipulation of the truth. goodman proves there is evil in all quadrants of human politics.She personifies evil and all that is wrong with American society. Too bad she gets a pass because her politics are acceptable...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2600560384355436278.post-39187130553552401382018-02-16T16:30:34.347-08:002018-02-16T16:30:34.347-08:00Amy is as bad as the article maintains. She was in...Amy is as bad as the article maintains. She was in collusion with others is Pacifica who wanted to sell WBAI, yet her claim to fame at the time was to supposedly fight against those who her supporters claimed actually wanted to sell WBAI. These targets of Amy an the Pacifica Campaign were people who really were advocates for the poor but were blindsided by the forces arrayed against them. A large faction at Pacifica station KPFA in Berkley originally opposed accepting WBAI into the network, which messed up the original plan to build a pan-California network, not a national network. The greed came in under the belief that the monies raised from a WBAI sale would bankroll a proposed California only network for generations to come. The big issue in 2001 was the decision by the NLRB that WBAI's union UE, a small leftist outfit, could no longer represent unpaid staff, read programmers who wanted life time entitlement to their unpaid programs. The real reason though was more complex, to prevent SAG-AFTRA from representing WBAI paid workers, as they did workers at other Pacifica bargaining units and Amy Goodman herself. Amy was notoriously difficult and AFTRA actually allowed her to have a one person bargaining unit with Pacifica to keep her away from other workers. She was a 1 person toxic workplace. When AFTRA became WBAI's union in late 2001 the Pacifica Campaign went ballistic because a real union would prevent sale of WBAI. It was only after more than a decade of purposely driving WBAI into the dirt by undermining fundraising and by losing the CPB grant by inexplicably refusing to do a required audit for several years that AFTRA was eventually forced out because they no longer had workers to represent as WBAI had to fire almost everybody. Then the sale of Pacifica was re-floated by KPFA, especially by attorney Dan Siegel a long time Pacifica Campaign stalwart. When that failed plan B was to have MNN take over WBAI engineered by Dan Coughlin who was given his job at MNN as reward for his support of the Pacifica Campaign and Amy Goodman as well as the same folks who wanted to maintain unpaid staff in a fake union back in 2001. These folks who claimed to be "pro union" would do everything in their power to defeat a real union at WBAI tells a lot about the craven and greedy goals of Ms Goodman and her friends.Paul DeRienzohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08025681628197896279noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2600560384355436278.post-47547097599816335422018-02-16T07:06:17.689-08:002018-02-16T07:06:17.689-08:00In fairness, you could call Goodman (and her crew)...In fairness, you could call Goodman (and her crew) just ruthlessly smart. Pacifica's dysfunction was well known by the early 2000's. I'd say she saw the downfall coming and engineered a way to avoid it. And hell, it worked. And it's not like she got all that rich off it, either. Pacifica hasn't been paying her what they supposedly owe for years.<br /><br />Also, to compare Goodman to Wall Street is to be laughably naive. Goodman's no saint, and she's not all that great a journalist, either...but she wasn't selfish. She acted in the best interest of herself AND her people on the show. That's just being a good boss.<br /><br />That said, please don't get me wrong. Nobody in Pacifica is blameless and Goodman is no exception. But I don't think she's nearly as evil as you've chosen to portray her.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com