http://wbai-nowthen.blogspot.com/2017/07/suicide-watch-waitin-to-die.html#comment-form
See more topics there with included comments at that URL - which may inform readers about what happens in NY - that then also may influence or destroy Our LA radio station - KPFK.
Note that the comments below are copied from that blog - which mostly focuses on Pacifica’s NY radio station, but what happens or doesnt happen there, is relevant because they are still connected to their LA station [KPFK].
Because of the blog writers' clever wordings, their historical knowledge and their willingness to expose & put out their thoughts [mostly about WBAI],that blog has a particular point of view.
Yet, those concerns & comments ALSO seem to often be relevant & pertinent to KPFK as well.
So a few quotes are reproduced here, as selective quotes. No name was attached to many of those words. See that blog for more info & other topics, directly there.
Topics are varied, but mostly have expressed concern about radio station mismanagement, staff misdoings or having wrong emphases, their sale of commercial premiums to get money for their radio station..and lots more.
And since there are 5 “sisters” [as they so are designated] radio stations across the USA, each can & do affect each other --as being an integral part of Pacifica.
Both by being under the Umbrella and By-laws of Pacifica corporation/ organization/ national board...and then also because somehow any of their financial problems, mismanaged deals, local station board decisions... as well as their ruins and $$$-finaglings still do endanger each other, even if indirectly…or in delay.
It has previously been seriously debated if KPFK's own building should be mortgaged to raise $$$ to bail out other radio stations elsewhere. But that destructive act did not finally take place, luckily. Yet, that it was seriously considered tells all KPFK donors & stakeholders what dangers and liabilities actually exist, whether now or later ... could happen again, maybe.
That is,dangers of connection exist, until at the end of 1 station. they pull down all or some of the others too. Be aware.
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"anonymous" = AKA " ~indigopirate" writes in different commentary sections:
“These are leftist fanatics. One thing they have in common with right-wing fanatics is that what matters above all to them is to have the ‘correct’ positions….
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"They’re hapless, they’re clueless, and it shows – no one listens….
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"These things happen. It isn’t the end of the world, but it is rather annoying. ’
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"I think Crosier [exe director of Pacifica Na’l Bd, & may be temporary as most have been the last few yrs] has good intentions but lacks the necessary force of personality to deal with these people….
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"Crosier is getting it from all sides. KPFK folks are screaming racism because they erroneously believe all Spanish language shows will be cancelled. Some KPFT folks are directly challenging his firing of their interim GM. WPFW is arguably worse than WBAI and that's on top of ESB [Empire State Bldg with whom they have a debt and conflict over that debt ] and audits. The last meeting with him here was all complaints about Berthold [GM of NY’s WBAI station] .
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"I realized that if you listen to WBAI you'll think there were only three or four black people of any consequence in American history. It's kind of insulting when you think about it…..
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"...recall the time when WBAI—then in its early stages of decay—was housed in a former church on Manhattan's East Side. It was still a radio station, it had real studios, and it attracted performers, producers and listeners of real talent and intellect. Unfortunately, it also attracted people with ulterior motives who saw an opportunity to further their own nefarious agendas……
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[action done ] "in order to shift the station radically (pun intended) away from the original vision toward one of explicit political advocacy…. "
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see http://wbai-nowthen.blogspot.com/
for more comments written there
posted july 31, 2017
(c) our comments [not quotes] 2017 bt
