Who heard the debut of KHSU’s new Tuesday night politico-economic chat show —
Mann Up! With Paul Mann
, as it isn’t called? Thoughts?
Me, I was only able to catch bits and pieces, but I liked it well enough. The subject was the global economic shitstorm, which Mann tried valiantly to localize. The guest list was maybe more interesting — HSU profs
Erik Eschker
and
Thomas Bruner
, both friends of the
Journal
, and Eureka Mayoral Hubby Matthew Owen, a mortgage man with Wells Fargo.
Smart folks all, and Mann seemed to do pretty well at getting them to say smart things. But it has to be said that if things keep going this way,
Mann Up!
is pretty clearly intended to serve as the university’s cheesy manner of “balancing” the corresponding left-leaning show,
Thursday Night Talk
. Mann’s day job as HSU spokesperson doesn’t much help with that impression. (See
“Station Identification,” July 31
, for background on the station’s odd politics and recent turmoil.)
Want good radio? Send half of
TNT
host David Cobb’s guests to Mann’s show, and vice versa. Forget about separate-but-equal echo chambers on evenings that begin with “T”. Encourage
debate
.
Incidentally, I see that this is just about the one-year anniversary of the
Eureka Reporter
‘s bonfire-and-pitchfork attack
on Erik Eschker for daring to suggest, in Oct. 2007, that there may be a problem in the Humboldt County housing market. Go back and relive the memories! The screed contains multiple instances of the classique “it’s only a
theory!
” argument, last refuge of American ignoramuses everywhere.
Paul Mann photo ganked from Green Wheels
.
This article appears in Downticket.
I enjoyed the show. Currently, this isn’t a very good environment to communicate right-wing ideology, whatever the radio station, hence the emphasis on “lack of transparency” as the real problem rather than deregulation (I think by Bruner).
I like your suggestion for renaming the show.
By the way, why did you trim the bus out of the background of that photo of Paul? you gotta problem with buses, Hank?
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There were other knowledgeable economists who hoped to be a part of the discussion, but who evidently didn’t meet the right-of-center political requirement for the show.
Bruner is a lightweight with no substantial graduate training in economics, but is somehow being promoted as some sort of pundit expert.
I agree with Other on Bruner, be good to get some of real caliber like the Prof. in there, a bunch of ‘been there, done that’ guys doesnt help understand the current situation.
KHSU will have a more successful pledge drive if, instead of encouraging people to donate in support of their favorite program, they allow people to donate in support of eliminating the most useless, despised program. Mann could rake in some big bucks for the station.
Professor’s depreciation theory not supported by North Coast history
— the eureka reporter —
hahahahahahahahah
ahahahahhahahahaha…oh yea… the old burn him he’s a witch thing.. Palin does that a lot too.