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KPFA Manager Lemlem Rijio Please Explain
Lemlem Rijio has failed to explain why she has targeted the staff of Flashpoints and also been in charge of the continuing decline of KPFA in listenership and support.
Subject: Lemlem, Please explain!
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 16:55:35 -0800
From: April Hurley, MD
To: gm(at)kpfa.org
Dear Lemlem Rigio,
Gutting Flashpoints is a very unwise move. Please try to explain; what
are you thinking?
Why would anyone promote the travel expense for unremarkable "Letters
from Washington" or minimize local reporting by combining KPFA and KPFK
news? Why send Brian Edwards-Tiekert, of all people, to Copenhagen for a
useless front row seat using precious grant money? On your watch,
Evening News and segmants through the day echo mainstream media's
talking points. Your Morning Show spends a good deal of its 2 hour time
pitching books, little info of critical importance. During prime captive
audience commute time, prime listener recruitment and pledging
opportunities, no less!
Your advisor, Brian E-T, makes ridiculous excuses for the precipitous
drop in KPFA funding; but he's so part of the problem! While Bush,
Obama, and the Democratic Congress have trashed the world and unraveled
our society, KPFA has been mostly white noise. Sabotaging the Local
Station Board, dismissing the Unpaid Staff Organization, and eliminating
the Program Council, to maintain a neutral format has been
unconscionable during these endless, brutal eight years. I've withheld
all but a pittance of the thousands of dollars I've donated yearly. I
used to enjoy the Craft Fair too. I can no longer sponsor this shameful
corruption of Lew Hill's vision.
Managing a Pacifica Station and staff should be a labor of love; people
feel frustrated for good reason. On your watch, policies have
constrained station activism, disabled Pacifica's Mission, and narrowed
Lew Hill's vision. Flashpoints is one of very few programs delivering
compelling, essential, cutting edge information not available elsewhere.
Listener-sponsors of KPFA demand this bang for their buck! Why are other
programs so complacent during these critical times?
KPFA is a precious, radically independent station with untapped power
and unlimited audience. Why keep archived treasures in mothballs? Why
not allow debate, analysis, forums, provocative talks and hard
questioning interviews on air? The Bay Area is teeming with independent
journalist, researchers, volunteers and activists willing to assist on
exceptional programs and contribute time and ideas you could use as
general manager. But you have persisted with deaf ears and dead wood.
Have an epiphany, Lemlem! Do one thing wise; manage on your own for a
change!!
Find the funds, restore staff to Flashpoints, and support the work of
this team.
Encourage me to donate again to a KPFA that is not complacent!
Lead KPFA to excellence or let someone with a conscience replace you as
manager!
Sincerely,
April Hurley, MD
Santa Rosa
Radio and online
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 16:55:35 -0800
From: April Hurley, MD
To: gm(at)kpfa.org
Dear Lemlem Rigio,
Gutting Flashpoints is a very unwise move. Please try to explain; what
are you thinking?
Why would anyone promote the travel expense for unremarkable "Letters
from Washington" or minimize local reporting by combining KPFA and KPFK
news? Why send Brian Edwards-Tiekert, of all people, to Copenhagen for a
useless front row seat using precious grant money? On your watch,
Evening News and segmants through the day echo mainstream media's
talking points. Your Morning Show spends a good deal of its 2 hour time
pitching books, little info of critical importance. During prime captive
audience commute time, prime listener recruitment and pledging
opportunities, no less!
Your advisor, Brian E-T, makes ridiculous excuses for the precipitous
drop in KPFA funding; but he's so part of the problem! While Bush,
Obama, and the Democratic Congress have trashed the world and unraveled
our society, KPFA has been mostly white noise. Sabotaging the Local
Station Board, dismissing the Unpaid Staff Organization, and eliminating
the Program Council, to maintain a neutral format has been
unconscionable during these endless, brutal eight years. I've withheld
all but a pittance of the thousands of dollars I've donated yearly. I
used to enjoy the Craft Fair too. I can no longer sponsor this shameful
corruption of Lew Hill's vision.
Managing a Pacifica Station and staff should be a labor of love; people
feel frustrated for good reason. On your watch, policies have
constrained station activism, disabled Pacifica's Mission, and narrowed
Lew Hill's vision. Flashpoints is one of very few programs delivering
compelling, essential, cutting edge information not available elsewhere.
Listener-sponsors of KPFA demand this bang for their buck! Why are other
programs so complacent during these critical times?
KPFA is a precious, radically independent station with untapped power
and unlimited audience. Why keep archived treasures in mothballs? Why
not allow debate, analysis, forums, provocative talks and hard
questioning interviews on air? The Bay Area is teeming with independent
journalist, researchers, volunteers and activists willing to assist on
exceptional programs and contribute time and ideas you could use as
general manager. But you have persisted with deaf ears and dead wood.
Have an epiphany, Lemlem! Do one thing wise; manage on your own for a
change!!
Find the funds, restore staff to Flashpoints, and support the work of
this team.
Encourage me to donate again to a KPFA that is not complacent!
Lead KPFA to excellence or let someone with a conscience replace you as
manager!
Sincerely,
April Hurley, MD
Santa Rosa
Radio and online
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Local public radio is of dire importance today, and perhaps our last hope for democracy.
Public radio hasn't recovered from the evisceration of the Bush years, which was almost complete.
Where is BOB Edwards?
That's only one key position that has been permanently neutralized.
Obama has supplied us with little more than platitudes:
when you look at treasury and defense, you can expect the actually work of government to continue to support their efforts. Likewise, NPR. And I have preserved some howlers that prove they are still implanting the same corporatist brainwash: I'm sure you have too. That's why local free radio is so important.
I did spend an inordinate amount of my time on Copenhagen, and allowed some other pressing issues to pass by -
but I didn't fly to Copenhagen, nor did I spend other peoples' money on the project.
This should be a concern.
I'm far out of range of Pacifica: although I do get a syndication of Democracy now, (which was almost killed as part of the Bush campaign), but nonetheless, April, I'm with you in Rockland.
David Roknich
Galesburg, Illinois
http://electromagnet.us/dogspot/
Public radio hasn't recovered from the evisceration of the Bush years, which was almost complete.
Where is BOB Edwards?
That's only one key position that has been permanently neutralized.
Obama has supplied us with little more than platitudes:
when you look at treasury and defense, you can expect the actually work of government to continue to support their efforts. Likewise, NPR. And I have preserved some howlers that prove they are still implanting the same corporatist brainwash: I'm sure you have too. That's why local free radio is so important.
I did spend an inordinate amount of my time on Copenhagen, and allowed some other pressing issues to pass by -
but I didn't fly to Copenhagen, nor did I spend other peoples' money on the project.
This should be a concern.
I'm far out of range of Pacifica: although I do get a syndication of Democracy now, (which was almost killed as part of the Bush campaign), but nonetheless, April, I'm with you in Rockland.
David Roknich
Galesburg, Illinois
http://electromagnet.us/dogspot/
For more information:
http://electromagnet.us/dogspot
April and David ...Right on!
I stand beside you to bear witness to this truth: The failure to effectively administrate KPFA is a tragedy. How long will this dysfunctional, inadequate, failed group of managers continue to drag down KPFA? How long must we endure the ravaging of programs and process to suit the confused ego of closed minded General Manager Lemlem Rijio? Lewis Hills' miraculous vision of peace, empowerment and commitment through community radio deserves better and so do KPFA listeners. Why did KPFA TREASURER, Brian Edwards-Tiekert, blow station money on a trip to Copenhagen? This in the middle of blood letting layoffs, program cutbacks and budget slashes? The time is now for closer scrutiny, this alliance between the station treasurer and the GM smells too cozy to me.
I stand beside you to bear witness to this truth: The failure to effectively administrate KPFA is a tragedy. How long will this dysfunctional, inadequate, failed group of managers continue to drag down KPFA? How long must we endure the ravaging of programs and process to suit the confused ego of closed minded General Manager Lemlem Rijio? Lewis Hills' miraculous vision of peace, empowerment and commitment through community radio deserves better and so do KPFA listeners. Why did KPFA TREASURER, Brian Edwards-Tiekert, blow station money on a trip to Copenhagen? This in the middle of blood letting layoffs, program cutbacks and budget slashes? The time is now for closer scrutiny, this alliance between the station treasurer and the GM smells too cozy to me.
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