tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3389902.post7234334532156209221..comments2023-10-28T06:19:33.110-04:00Comments on Current.org Blog: Looking to missions and origins to refocus pubcastingDruhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04113068910907963072noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3389902.post-13989933303039886932011-08-31T15:45:35.856-04:002011-08-31T15:45:35.856-04:00While in Alaska and during my blogging days I trie...While in Alaska and during my blogging days I tried very hard to get conversations going that centered on mission. It never went anywhere.<br /><br />I get the feeling that most of pubcasting is basically in a deer-in-headlights situation. Upper-level managers are too comfortable (money, community esteem) to risk changing things, and have lost touch with the mission. Indeed, we have many managers today that had nothing to do with the early days of pubcasting, in the wake of the 1967 PBA idealism. They didn't scrape their way through the 1970s and didn't enjoy the tremendous amount of money available in the early years.<br /><br />It's always easier to just keep doing what you're doing. It's human nature.<br /><br />Yet if public media is to mean anything in the future, it must take on a challenging mission that is rewarding for the publics it serves. Just being another TV station or rebroadcasting someone else's audio content isn't much of a mission these days.<br /><br />So go Powell, go. But don't get your hopes up.John Proffitthttp://twitter.com/jmproffittnoreply@blogger.com