“Retro-programming and gifts [$-traded-premiums] on KPFK ?

KPFK is supportive only of it's own limited  version of what is 
"Their " holy " TRUTH...which is always self-defined or limited by those on-air... or to their own colleague's agreements ...
as these few are for sure only the so-called :
"those who do only good, of course" ...
or so  they assume, and claim..." hmmm

or ...are their focuses Only on any-&-all-"Victims" ? 
Can no one else can be heard or verbally-hugged there ?  
No "others" are apparently interesting enough to be included in their 'favorites' to talk to or  be a guest or work-to-help ? 

Do all KPFK staff & programmers keep a strict, limited list of who is included in any on-air access?  Minorities are dominant. Of course, Victims are always "right" and "needy". Thus they are the continual subject of interest, globally. 

Meanwhile, all them governments are wrong, objectionable and evil or stupid. So only the poor, helpless, loud, and desperate are allowed...on-air access at this radio station.

Except ...when $$$$ is begged for.... and then out of the creepy corners all those non-poor hucksters, authors, lecturers, sellers of media or health-curative products are suddenly all over KPFK's airwaves,  coming just to SELL their stuff to those who want to be more pure, more perfect, more in-the-know, and 'one of Us..." hmmm

Suddenly the airwaves are filled with INFOMERCIAL-like repeated spiels. Though that instantly-denied word is rejected, of course. Instead of  visual "product-placement" quietly showing brands, the KPFK listeners are  instead inundated with repeat-bragging, audio-compliments of what those 'special 'gifts are..hmmmm.... and how Much Value is being given to the over-paying donors, in return for actual cash ....or better yet, instant credit card paid to the station, or the monthly-$$$- subscribing... w/o any end date hopefully ?

Has KPFK turned into such a 1-extreme-sided source?


Why are all those who have the POWER of being 'staff' or volunteer [programmers, free-work-helpers, et al] are  acting as-if-They-Are-The-Real-Saviors, the Only or Best ones...

 KPFK, the Rescuing elite few.... the Rescuers, marking those as "the Most Caring People" ....and so, those they try to 'help' - those on the other side of that triangle -  must be only "the weak, the broken, those un-able and those incompetents "?  

Them - those who must 'Need' - and thus to be given all the free exposure & attention that KPFK - as a non-profited corporation- can give, that is are prominent.

No one else but the downtrodden, broken, clearly, only the 'more-deserving-because-they-didnt-get-more' and those who can [maybe] be 'rescued' ...or at least given air-time to repeat in dramatic, emotional details their plight ...and sad [or angry] stories.

So they only-those who agree with the KPFK's limited-view world stance,  and can understand, that the radio station must always find more 'victims'  to plead for  = "only those who need all our help"  are allowed... even if that help is only on-air words to elicit money or exposure [P.R., publicity, audibilitiy, = free media.] 

The authors, professors, activists who speak for the Victim-poor-deprived must adhere to the same party-line, or not be on this station. Sorry. No other descriptive information is heard there. Any "others" are Not interesting enough?

Those inside the access/power positions of Our Radio Station select and limit who is qualified enough to be such a 'Needs-Our-Help'-Attention... to fulfill the image of the station's reputation of being : heroic and giving and thus kind -which frames the side-benefit and unstated purified images of those who get on-air - so are the selections made. 

No other 'sides' or views are explained or allowed at this radio site. No more than 1 view, version, story is allowed nor valid ? No questions, no alternative perceptions or analyses, no discussion, only affirmations and confirmations of the same- old 1 side chosen. No questions need be asked. No "other" stories are relevant nor permitted.

What is going on in there NOW ?  

Have all balance, or moderations , or any areas of  middle-ground just dis-appeared, or been silenced/ dis-sounded on this  virtuous radio site?  

Remember Goldilocks ? The idea of a middle-moderate-selection, made by a fairy tale girl...she has maybe been finally shown to be just a dumb, biased girl, and made a lost, silly, childish choice. The Middle Point is thus here declared indirectly as a poor fit. No, Not heard here. Not wanted. 

Are "progressives" [ =that's just a word taken to indicate moving 'ahead' and not being   'behind '?  Or is it just a current word that before was called "liberal" ?  or any one-up label of being "good, caring, honest" vs. those "others" who are clearly  "evil, bad, selfish"...et al  ]. the ones that can accommodate more than any 1 just-extreme stance? Or are any fused, variable, or mixed, not-extreme views being mis-labeled as "too hot" or "too cold"? so better ignored ? Or maybe it is a case of that too European tale, too old... and moderation, middle ground, is so outdated  by now? 

To hear alternatives, grey areas vs. black OR white versions as valid - ones that are Middle grounds, not interesting to KPFK audiences ? All that may be mixed and not just all-1-extreme-pure-whatever dull and dishonest?

Some of us are wondering ....why this radio station- the one that keeps claiming & spinning it’s own version of what is True and what is Wong and Who is  Right and Who are bad and What is what... the definer: that is the authority KPFK  claims? 

How this corporation is described is not what is heard: whatever this NON-profit entity IS claiming it IS - selling it's own framed image as 'fair', 'free', 'real', 'honest', 'believable' 
et al. is not what is predominately presented.  

While Stakeholders & donors are expected to only agree and believe the set-ups = the preferred story-line - of what KPFK IS...vs. what is heard ? ? ?

….as if:  speaking only “free honest speech” - kinda, sometime, not most times though

…as telling the ‘whole truth and nothing but the truth” - seldom, sometimes, maybe partly, maybe slanted unadmittedly 

…as “we are not NPR selling commercials”  - maybe they are more similar, but tuned differently, doing same trades & $$$ getting.

…as “we are pure, holy, good, and innocent and courageous too” – tho mostly these are Not apparent - not when audiences are Listening to other than their own-favorite-confirmation-story...as not NOW...  yet that story is implied again, now when hearing KPFK's having yet another “fund $$$ drive” - with sales promotions, & publicity - it's denied, but  implied, repeated...

... this is meaning that every programmer keeps doing their same,repeated, begging, pleading, demanding endlessly on...and on...for  : more MORE and more  $$$ money –  
or for a trade of some old, repeated, (& yes, elsewhere-that-is-cheaper-and-also-available) : 
audio-tapes, 
books, 
DVDs, 
compiled, collected, copies of speeches/ lectures/ workshops,or that extra chair set up in a lecture hall too....

...as all is now so easy to copy, proliferate, and then have the buyer ( aka "donor") profit with the free on-air advertising - saying to buyer they can then listen to media again, later.. a reason to "buy now", tho worded differently.

(And remember that when that media is sent electronically, there is no cost to 'send' many multiples of same... by that oh, so "generous" sender / provider / supplier...as technology has made reproduction almost free... & so easy, too.)

The iGM, (interim Gen’l Mgr) ,the previously super-sales- woman & union rep at KPFK - today just made some fantastical claims - about a guest/ supplier of audio/  a book, / a visit to his hotel-room-lecture.

Christine said “ Mr….has given us Millions of Dollars worth of…”    huh ? really?    

Who  actually counted that value and how ? As she continued making such admiring descriptions validating his products, in order to SELL them as a 'premium' to money $$$ donors to the station. All sounds so innocent... but dissimulating iGM making fake or only-personal pronouncements to get the items sold?    

Who is to believe these pretend words, as if they are 'facts' instead of being  spins or promotions ? who can be so gullible? 

Selling never is. Exaggerations create doubt and distrust, instead.So how can this [a Commercializer]  staff to be believed when she expands and exaggerates when describing a Supplier, to give him more publicity and positive imagery?

To insure she gets plenty of  'pledges of $$$'  - by exaggerating, complimenting, and flattering  whoever is the producer, or supplier of premiums, whoever it may be that 
day?

So, who is really 'accountable' for the claims made- for all the exaggerations, the fake advertising that IS repeatedly, often,  made on-air ? 

And all in the name of: anything we say is OK if  we are 'getting more money in'... because 
"if we need it. we can say anything ?"   huh? 

All is intended to 'sell'  those clever so-called "premiums"
[aka "gifts"]= TRADES for dollars, as if that trade were other than: 
advertising, 
sales, 
promotions, 
merchandise/ media trades 
and all in the name of Business...deals. yeah, deals. Transactions to do a trade-deal. Like presidents do too.

This is obviously true... with no spins or games or twists- no  framing, hedging or trying to cover-up what TRANSACTIONS are being done at KPFK... 

Who will tell, or admit anything ?  but the usual repeated "line" intended to create that old pure, goodie image  that KPFK needs to maintain  = to later sell to get more $$$$ ?

Can it be that when SUPPLIERS of mdse and events – who make a great TRADE-DEAL by their appearing on air,  are there bragging about the value and effects of their products, for sure ! and the same sales blurb are on-air again, later,  repeatedly --  to insure access to many radio listeners. 

So premium-business-suppliers [yes, they are in business, even when they may give-away promos for this on-air PR access]. 

All and any 'guests' are happily promoting their name, products, reputation and  even later get more sales, invitations, audio-visability  [ by being on  a KPFK radio program- what a a cheap way to get free publicity.This is a paid-for-benefit, anywhere].

And they often sell audio mdse, or personal growth & curative products [while product is not on a shelf, but it's in KPFK listeners' imagination only being lauded, admired, described enthusiastically as the 'best..." & recommended-sold by their favorite programmer or staff ].

Most media sent to donors is cheap, as fund-drive sales audio is cheaply reproduced, and then sales blurb may be replayed & replayed... often  & easily.... on our KPFK air waves - at all hours.... and later again - for as long as money is "urgently’ needed "… so it's ok, isn't it ??? 

Just as  those sales pitches, promotions, P.R., publicity, name recognition are valuable [when paid for elsewhere]...here it is given to suppliers, easily, by repetition for exposure... and it is obvious- yep, it is advertising... by any other name, remains the same effect. (https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=advertising+definition)

Then with the programmer/ iGM or  iPD [interim Program Director - there still for umpteen yrs ] employees of KPFK are  validating that the " $120, $200, $365, or More is worth"  the trade, and "by sending $$$ to KPFK,"  a good deed is being done ...so "call us now !!! we need $$$...." - is heard again.

While the suppliers just spend a bit of their time - to get so much FREE ON AIR  exposure and free  publicity for their products [& then that promo is also replayed],
it is profitable for all. 

Suppliers can exaggerate, or make big, unsubstantiated claims about how effective and curative their products are  “!!!” and so they brag, sell, exaggerate, lie...while  no one at KPFK also pushing their products will disagree, on air. No one.  

Then these product/media suppliers are also made to appear 'as if ' they are oh, so, "generous" too, by maybe not charging KPFK or staff for that sales time or for a few products provided, that ...yes, they exchange - for air time promotions.

While it is called a  ‘give away’ of their products.  It is Not.      It is a Trade, it is a Transaction, it is a Deal : where both KPFK and suppliers get goodies & benefits back. 

Just as their using just "your email" or sending a USB - or maybe even having another chair in a hotel room that can be filled up further with little cost to event promoter is labeled falsely as a 'gift'...when it is a 'trade', a 'business transaction.'

Are Infomercials  spun on a non-profit corporation not the same as those heard on a for-profit corporation ? 

All is fair in business and war ? or is it "love"? no. wrong again.

Like hotel rooms are easily offered as ‘free gifts”,yet are of no-cost to the Hotel, but still made to seem like an expensive offer to customers - who otherwise would pay hefty prices. Because the Hotel mostly has extra rooms open  & available , just sitting there waiting to be filled, for pay or for sales-helpful promos.

Same is done with ‘free attendance to lecture/ workshop” that KPFK sells …errr…as KPFK dedicated premium suppliers "give " away. Oh.....Not ‘away’- because the return on their 1 hr or less presentation & promotion is so much, much MORE than just the drive to No Hollywood radio studios. 

The 'giver'  actually benefits lots more with that exposure, with all those kind compliments on air,  with the recommendations by the programmers / staff of KPFK, plus lots more.

Yet, the pretenses are continuous and deceitful. 
The exaggerations are also extreme and un-believable. 
The programmers also personally get ‘freebees’  but that is never mentioned  [because ‘amongst friends, we just share, friendlily ….don’t we all ?”].   No. 

Just those who can USE the non-profit radio station [that is the stakeholders, who own, by all who have contributed to the organizations' upkeep, and as over all the years of it’s existence, the stakeholders, who indirectly pay for salaries, equipment, mortgages,  & whatever all is necessary..for KPFK to stay ‘on air’.

That is, the airwaves / the same sounds as “on air” - those airwaves that KPFK reminds us “belongs to the public”.
That's allll of us, them... and we too.

Programmers also are promoted there, & listed with their own personal / business websites too. Write or try to call them. 
See if they respond. Because unless you are a Customer, to buy more services, that they then sell privately, separately, there is usually no answer, ever. Try it. We have. No effect. No reply. No one cares ?

Then the ‘non-profit’ aspect is gone... as programmers' services/products are no longer  ‘tax deductible’ - though the programmers and their guests [and cronies & friends ] are all getting FREE PR all the time - even while they are using Our Radio Station’s On Air access – using that time to sell their own stuff. Or ideas. Or events. Or views. Or reputation. Or preferred, manufactured images.

The continuous pride-full KPFK faked claim of: 
 “We Are Not…. like those others,who are trying to make-money, or to get your cash,or take you into debt,  or using your listenership for OUR benefit - not at all !!! "  -  is repeated forever.  hmmmm.... but that sounds exaggerated again...    

Definitions are made and carefully controlled : intended to say what others should [listeners] hear, then to believe, to remember and to repeat.  That is the same advertising sales trick …everywhere, anywhere, and even at this radio station = the same methods.

Why do the audiences & listeners fall for the tricks of the Left-radical-Liberal-claiming-to-be group, which uses the clever claims of  “not for profit” – and to then say "we are not ‘Them!” capitalistas – we are different, better, truer, better" - but yet these same peole are allowed to advertise on the station? 

How or when are hypocrisies ever admitted or acknowledged  anywhere ? even at KPFK ? 

Or is it only when listeners meet up elsewhere, outside of the sacred radio stratosphere, and they can there discuss:
why they have pulled away
stopped giving $$$$
seldom even listen now 
and don't volunteer any more... 
saying     "why are KPFK listeners assumed to be such dummies, any way?"
 
Of course, it is easy to sit elsewhere and see/ hear / notice and criticize…KPFK or anyone else…just as KPFK people 
on-air do that all the time, too, easily.

Of course, it is more difficult to get  legitimately paid for work than it is to be  publicly funded -  given free $$$ - for just doing what has been doing since July 26, 1959 - talking on the radio, replaying audio, media, replaying others' programs again on  KPFK's air, or finding a free guest who wants prominent free exposure too, etc. etc.?

It is all a matter of who is OPEN and HONEST [on air] to admitting that KPFK's staff, programmers, systems and local-board-members and their by laws --  are flawed and imperfect, all the while trying hard to sell, impress a chosen-image out to the world...but also they are acting as if in deep DENIAL ... and also acting defensively much the time.

Of course, nothing is going to change, tho the same ‘old’  - as noted often from long past history of even current station members – that KPFK people are still doing the very same act.

Trying.  Still and again = “trying”...while insisting. that :  yes, they ARE improving – even while most or many donors & stakeholders & listeners do notice.... the very same happening ... yet again…and again…and ….

 

foto courtesy of photosbyalexandria.com

Of course, those $=traded-premiums' are: magical cures that are lauded and applauded and promoted...mostly during money-getting times -

i.e. like NLP or positive-thinking-trainings, old self-help books, lextures, workshops, DVD's, CD's, (from the '70's )
or affirmations...or numerology or foods or vitamins.... 
or antiquated organizations 
or "doctors" [of what?] or "healers"
or 'self-help-support-servicers'
or self-defined-experts...
  
As all are still claiming fame  validity... and insisting that they have, are, can do very special healing curatives...

And all while programmers agree that such promotional products and speakers/ authors are exceptional...

So sales messages are repeatedly pro-claimed and ADVERTISED - 

Oh,yes... on this 'non-profit', and 'non commercial' KPFK… again…

And most of these methods, teachings, trainings, etc.  were ‘new’ and fascinating back in 1970’s and 1980’s...but are now exhumed to be sold again, for another $200 or so…
 
Of course, meanwhile.... the internal station dynamics, 
[and also within Pacifica- their mother/father ship ]- 
continue.. as in-fighting, factionalizing, cleaving and divisiveness continues…even as these processes are increasing and exploding ...everywhere else too.  

As also noticed in other countries, groups, organizations - that do the same breaking open/ self-destructing moves.

NOT to have KPFK & their workers claim they are ‘above’ or beyond such changes… or as we hear, know are happening, yet again, yes, at Our Radio Station.

When do we confront the un-truths ? the illusions ? the wishes & hopes that are not realities ?

When do we just give up and go away ? 


July 20, 2017   (C) rr