"We're No Longer a Radio Network, We're a Sad Political Glee Club"

"'National Public Radio was kind of a body blow to Pacifica,' Lasar says. 'It was a more professional and less strident alternative.'
"In Los Angeles, ousted KPFK program director Ruth Hirschman (now Ruth Seymour) built KCRW into a powerhouse. Many of Pacifica's volunteer programmers were happy to let 'corporate' NPR surpass them in listenership; Pacifica was 'community radio.'
"'The central underlying problem at Pacifica,' Marc Cooper says, 'is that in the end, what dictates everything is the individual programmer's desire to hold onto his or her airtime. Management has always been weak.'"


Hillel Aron in the LA Weekly depicts the decline of Pacifica Radio.