{"id":68153,"date":"2024-05-17T15:57:59","date_gmt":"2024-05-17T20:57:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=68153"},"modified":"2024-05-17T15:57:59","modified_gmt":"2024-05-17T20:57:59","slug":"managing-chaos-adventures-in-alternative-media-greg-guma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=68153","title":{"rendered":"Managing Chaos: Adventures in Alternative Media. Greg Guma"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Managing Chaos: Adventures in Alternative Media. Greg Guma<\/a><\/h3>\n

An eye-witness account that explores the unique, tumultuous history of Pacifica radio and alternative media in America.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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After an eclectic career,\u00a0Greg Guma<\/strong>\u00a0discusses the evolution of radio and television, the impacts of concentrated media ownership, the rise of the alternative press, his own work in Vermont \u2014 before and during a progressive revolution that changed the state\u2019s power structure, and decades later, how he managed the original listener-supported radio network.<\/em><\/p>\n

Weaving together an intimate chronicle of what he saw as Pacifica Radio\u2019s first post-revolution CEO and episodes from his earlier life as a reporter, editor and activist, Guma explores the challenges of maintaining democratic institutions in a culture of distrust and polarization, of striking the delicate balance between truth and advocacy, observation and participation, and of managing conflicts with persuasion instead of force.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Managing Chaos is a media saga, a personal story, and a cautionary tale.<\/p>\n

\u2026a skilled writer who has immersed himself in Vermont life and politics for decades.\u00a0 \u2014 Sasha Abramsky<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2026the first executive in Pacifica who has been willing, and able, to share his experiences\u2026.\u00a0They ought to be required reading for all PNB and LSB members.\u00a0 \u2014\u00a0\u00a0Nalini Lasiewicz<\/span><\/p>\n

Excerpts from the Book<\/b><\/p>\n

\u201cThe deeper I looked the more convoluted and intractable the problems appeared: Charges and counter-charges of secrecy, waste, racism, sexism, harassment and violence, turf battles over local fiefdoms, manipulation, and alleged fraud. It seemed like a fratricidal war with no end in sight.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt reminded me of how easily reality can be blurred by misinformation. That July, Jeff Ruch, the director of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, had issued a relevant assessment of a much larger and even more dysfunctional organization. \u2018The federal government,\u2019 he concluded, \u2018is suffering from a severe disinformation syndrome.\u2019<\/p>\n

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Managing Chaos: Adventures in Alternative Media. Greg Guma An eye-witness account that explores the unique, tumultuous history of Pacifica radio and alternative media in America. After an eclectic career,\u00a0Greg Guma\u00a0discusses the evolution of radio and television, the impacts of concentrated media ownership, the rise of the alternative press, his own work in Vermont \u2014 before […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[4075,3717,6110,379,34575,9745,496,512,1426],"class_list":["post-68153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-chaos","tag-disinformation","tag-global-research","tag-government","tag-greg-guma","tag-independent-media","tag-mainstream-media","tag-media","tag-misinformation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68153"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68154,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68153\/revisions\/68154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}