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Pacifica attempts to defend KPFA layoffs, contract violations
“KPFA lives on listener support, and the Morning Show is the most lucrative program on the station when it comes to pledge drives. KPFA listeners want local content; in fact, since the Morning Show staff was laid off, listenership has plummeted. Figures I’ve obtained on web listenership (which is easy to track, and at KPFA ultimately tends to be similar to the overall listenership tends) show that the peak audience dropped more than 60 percent after the station started piping in outside content.”
Sonali Kolhatkar, host of the program Uprising, spoke with the Executive Director of Pacifica about her decision to lay off the staff of KPFA’s Morning Show. Against the wishes of its host, Uprising is being piped into KPFA from Los Angeles during the time slot of the Morning Show. Kolhatkar questioned Engelhardt about Pacifica’s violation of KPFA’s union contract, the Unfair Labor Practice Charge filed with the NLRB, and how it was that Engelhardt chose whom to layoff at KPFA–rather than KPFA management. Engelhardt said that she had been given her “marching orders” by the Pacifica National Board to make deep cuts and declined to comment whether the Morning Show’s union staff would be replaced by volunteers.
In a piece titled “KPFA’s Morning Show Purged,” the San Francisco Bay Guardian Executive Editor Tim Redmond weighs in on the layoffs of that program’s staff. He writes, “KPFA lives on listener support, and the Morning Show is the most lucrative program on the station when it comes to pledge drives. KPFA listeners want local content; in fact, since the Morning Show staff was laid off, listenership has plummeted. Figures I’ve obtained on web listenership (which is easy to track, and at KPFA ultimately tends to be similar to the overall listenership tends) show that the peak audience dropped more than 60 percent after the station started piping in outside content.”
Redmond adds, “I’ve tried in the past year to stay out of the drama at KPFA — I’m a KPFA member, a longtime supporter and a fan of what the station does, and I don’t think constant media scrutiny and leftist harping about every single cut and personnel decision in tough financial times does any good for the progressive cause. But this one seems to be a big mistake, and I don’t see how Englehardt is going to fix it.”
In a piece titled “KPFA’s Morning Show Purged,” the San Francisco Bay Guardian Executive Editor Tim Redmond weighs in on the layoffs of that program’s staff. He writes, “KPFA lives on listener support, and the Morning Show is the most lucrative program on the station when it comes to pledge drives. KPFA listeners want local content; in fact, since the Morning Show staff was laid off, listenership has plummeted. Figures I’ve obtained on web listenership (which is easy to track, and at KPFA ultimately tends to be similar to the overall listenership tends) show that the peak audience dropped more than 60 percent after the station started piping in outside content.”
Redmond adds, “I’ve tried in the past year to stay out of the drama at KPFA — I’m a KPFA member, a longtime supporter and a fan of what the station does, and I don’t think constant media scrutiny and leftist harping about every single cut and personnel decision in tough financial times does any good for the progressive cause. But this one seems to be a big mistake, and I don’t see how Englehardt is going to fix it.”
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Hey maybe the SF Bay Guardian might like to get into Radio business
To the both the poster and the commenter: I for one have been out of touch and seem to have missed the story about unionbusting at the SFBG, as well as Redmond's commentary. This is a news website- please post links to your sources.
To the original poster: KPFA is in the East Bay, so please choose East Bay for your category. I'm leaving SF on there since you referred to the Bay Guardian, but it's really quite a stretch to say this post goes on that page. Thanks.
To the original poster: KPFA is in the East Bay, so please choose East Bay for your category. I'm leaving SF on there since you referred to the Bay Guardian, but it's really quite a stretch to say this post goes on that page. Thanks.
Since the Bay Guardian was founded in 1966, easily within this writer's memory, it has been non-union. That is, of course, before the Internet, so information on the net is difficult to find. There was a strike in 1976. Here is one link, and of course, you can always call the San Francisco Central Labor Council and ask them if the Bay Guardian has any union contract:
http://libcom.org/library/small-not-beautiful
and
http://www.uncanny.net/~wetzel/sfbg.htm
And here is Redmond's statement of 11/11/10 at
http://www.sfbg.com/politics/2010/11/11/kpfas-morning-show-purged
One comment says it all:
The Morning Show needed to be cancelled. Yes, Tim was a guest, part of the Pacifica pool of guests. While Flashpoints and Hard Knocks Radio regularly reflects the Bay Area, The Morning Show was NPR-lite.
It's amazing to grasp that the guests were majority Anglo White with a few African-Americans sprinkled in and that's normal?
Where were Aisan-Americans, where was my fellow Latinos and Latinas?
We weren't there. Day after day.
But there was time on air for Aimee Allison to trash Helen Thomas.
When Nora Barrows-Friedman was cut, KPFA suffered a serious loss.
Brian Edwards-Tiekert and Aimee Allison were two fluffers and won't be missed.
On the seniority issue, Brian's only been with The Morning Show for a few years.
Actually, Brian Edwards-Tiekert started with the Morning Show in JANUARY 2010, THIS YEAR. And his reactionary co-host, Aimee Allison, started in 2007. For more on these two, see:
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/11/11/18663913.php?show_comments=1#18663985
The Bay Guardian has always been a Democratic mouthpiece, endorsing the entire stinking reactionary ticket. On rare occasions, it endorses a Peace & Freedom or Green Party candidate, and never for a major office such as president or governor. The quality of the Bay Guardian has declined so much in the past 10 years that it is not even worth reading. That the stinking Democratic mouthpiece whiners at KPFA with their phony scab union CWA that replaced the much better UE are citing Tim Redmond as their friend is a sign of how reactionary they are. The CWA never defended Nora Barrows-Friedman when she lost her job, although she had more seniority over others who remained. For more on the reactionary CWA at KPFA, see:
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/11/12/18664016.php?show_comments=1#18664053
You will notice that no suggestions to solve KPFA's financial crisis, caused by Redmond's Democratic Party till-tapping friends, are made by Redmond. We are all somehow to be just impressed that Redmond, as editor of a boring Democratic Party advertising rag, whined. The only impression we should have is that his whining confirms Pacifica finally did the right thing in ending the Morning Show.
Ms. Englehardt also MADE IT VERY CLEAR that (1) there will be local paid programming in the morning, and that (2) she, as a former programmer, understood that a daily show needs a paid programmer.
Brian Edward-Tiekert has made clear his contempt for local programming at:
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/11/13/18664112.php Thus, the defenders of this reactionary person are lying when they say they care about local programming.
As to the non-existent Morning Show, anything during the morning and evening drive times raises more money than the middle of the day or night. It is wonderful that Pacifica has finally paid attention to its finances and to the possible threats to its license. Ms. Englehardt stated in her interview on Uprising that one reason she was given marching orders to shut down the Morning Show was the threat to the Pacifica license by the unprofessional conduct of the Morning Show, clearly referencing the one-sided electioneering in September for the Thug Hallinan Gang.
The current Los Angeles programs are about the standard that we hear on Democratic Party mouthpieces like KPFA, and reflect the low level of political consciousness in this backward country, which is now 49th in life expectancy because we have a private profit insurance system, putting us behind the entire industrialized world and some of the non-industrialized world. They have no sense of class struggle or contempt for the latest fascist millionaire sitting in the White House.
http://libcom.org/library/small-not-beautiful
and
http://www.uncanny.net/~wetzel/sfbg.htm
And here is Redmond's statement of 11/11/10 at
http://www.sfbg.com/politics/2010/11/11/kpfas-morning-show-purged
One comment says it all:
The Morning Show needed to be cancelled. Yes, Tim was a guest, part of the Pacifica pool of guests. While Flashpoints and Hard Knocks Radio regularly reflects the Bay Area, The Morning Show was NPR-lite.
It's amazing to grasp that the guests were majority Anglo White with a few African-Americans sprinkled in and that's normal?
Where were Aisan-Americans, where was my fellow Latinos and Latinas?
We weren't there. Day after day.
But there was time on air for Aimee Allison to trash Helen Thomas.
When Nora Barrows-Friedman was cut, KPFA suffered a serious loss.
Brian Edwards-Tiekert and Aimee Allison were two fluffers and won't be missed.
On the seniority issue, Brian's only been with The Morning Show for a few years.
Actually, Brian Edwards-Tiekert started with the Morning Show in JANUARY 2010, THIS YEAR. And his reactionary co-host, Aimee Allison, started in 2007. For more on these two, see:
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/11/11/18663913.php?show_comments=1#18663985
The Bay Guardian has always been a Democratic mouthpiece, endorsing the entire stinking reactionary ticket. On rare occasions, it endorses a Peace & Freedom or Green Party candidate, and never for a major office such as president or governor. The quality of the Bay Guardian has declined so much in the past 10 years that it is not even worth reading. That the stinking Democratic mouthpiece whiners at KPFA with their phony scab union CWA that replaced the much better UE are citing Tim Redmond as their friend is a sign of how reactionary they are. The CWA never defended Nora Barrows-Friedman when she lost her job, although she had more seniority over others who remained. For more on the reactionary CWA at KPFA, see:
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/11/12/18664016.php?show_comments=1#18664053
You will notice that no suggestions to solve KPFA's financial crisis, caused by Redmond's Democratic Party till-tapping friends, are made by Redmond. We are all somehow to be just impressed that Redmond, as editor of a boring Democratic Party advertising rag, whined. The only impression we should have is that his whining confirms Pacifica finally did the right thing in ending the Morning Show.
Ms. Englehardt also MADE IT VERY CLEAR that (1) there will be local paid programming in the morning, and that (2) she, as a former programmer, understood that a daily show needs a paid programmer.
Brian Edward-Tiekert has made clear his contempt for local programming at:
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/11/13/18664112.php Thus, the defenders of this reactionary person are lying when they say they care about local programming.
As to the non-existent Morning Show, anything during the morning and evening drive times raises more money than the middle of the day or night. It is wonderful that Pacifica has finally paid attention to its finances and to the possible threats to its license. Ms. Englehardt stated in her interview on Uprising that one reason she was given marching orders to shut down the Morning Show was the threat to the Pacifica license by the unprofessional conduct of the Morning Show, clearly referencing the one-sided electioneering in September for the Thug Hallinan Gang.
The current Los Angeles programs are about the standard that we hear on Democratic Party mouthpieces like KPFA, and reflect the low level of political consciousness in this backward country, which is now 49th in life expectancy because we have a private profit insurance system, putting us behind the entire industrialized world and some of the non-industrialized world. They have no sense of class struggle or contempt for the latest fascist millionaire sitting in the White House.
For more information:
http://libcom.org/library/small-not-beautiful
You can hear Arlene Englehardt interiewed on Uprising in the second hour of the 11/11/10 Morning Show archive, starting at 8:15 a.m. after the AP wire news blurbs from the local Hallinan Gang member, Aileen Alfandary, at:
http://www.kpfa.org/archive/id/65277
You will also hear about the medical benefits crisis, all of this under Democrat Obama, the Democratic Party proudly promoted by the Wellstone Democratic Club also known as the Thug Hallinan Gang, Concerned Listeners, Save KPFA, Slave KPFA. This was in response to a question about the Thug Hallinan Gang's proposed budget, which does not address KPFA's needs at all, as Ms. Englehardt states in the below KQED interview.
Arlene Englehardt reiterated there will be local programming in the Uprising interview and in the KQED interview below.
There is also a link in the comment to the KQED Krasny forum at:
http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201011100931
For Larry Bensky's biography, see:
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/11/09/18663753.php
One more item on the list in that article is as follows:
10. His ridicule of the fact of history that Nazis influenced the anti-Communist witchhunts of the 1940s-1950s as of course they were first and foremost anti-communist:
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2004/04/05/16762211.php
Having reactionary, allegedly retired, Larry Bensky be the representative of the Morning Show, with his serious obvious difficulties breathing and speaking, is a strong sign that this is a political campaign by the Thug Hallinan Gang. There is no other reason for this hysteria about a few layoffs, in a time of the Great Depression of the 21st Century. Flashpoints, the Morning Show and the Evening News are all good fundraisers because they are all at drive time, getting ready to go to work, and commuting to and from work, and making dinner time.
Englehardt also itemized the economic crisis throughout Pacifica. She clearly stated that when KPFA could not meet payroll on Sept 15, 2010 meant that in the future, either cuts would have to be made or KPFA would have to be closed, and she is committed to keeping all of the Pacifica stations open. She describes the fundraising agenda she has, the budget crisis she has to deal with, and the requirement that she is working on making sure that all stations have permanent general managers, which KPFA certainly does not have because of the obstructionist behavior of the Thug Hallinan Gang that claims to be union workers at KPFA who act as managers. She clearly states in response to Larry Bensky's defense of the Democratic Party that she is aware Democrat Obama is attempting to cut Social Security and bomb Iran, all supported by Democrats and Republicans, and she has brought speakers to KPFA to address those issues. We all, of course, heard about all of this on all news programs and news websites. They are not exactly news anymore as they are long-standing political footballs. Congratulations to Arlene Engelhardt!
http://www.kpfa.org/archive/id/65277
You will also hear about the medical benefits crisis, all of this under Democrat Obama, the Democratic Party proudly promoted by the Wellstone Democratic Club also known as the Thug Hallinan Gang, Concerned Listeners, Save KPFA, Slave KPFA. This was in response to a question about the Thug Hallinan Gang's proposed budget, which does not address KPFA's needs at all, as Ms. Englehardt states in the below KQED interview.
Arlene Englehardt reiterated there will be local programming in the Uprising interview and in the KQED interview below.
There is also a link in the comment to the KQED Krasny forum at:
http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201011100931
For Larry Bensky's biography, see:
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/11/09/18663753.php
One more item on the list in that article is as follows:
10. His ridicule of the fact of history that Nazis influenced the anti-Communist witchhunts of the 1940s-1950s as of course they were first and foremost anti-communist:
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2004/04/05/16762211.php
Having reactionary, allegedly retired, Larry Bensky be the representative of the Morning Show, with his serious obvious difficulties breathing and speaking, is a strong sign that this is a political campaign by the Thug Hallinan Gang. There is no other reason for this hysteria about a few layoffs, in a time of the Great Depression of the 21st Century. Flashpoints, the Morning Show and the Evening News are all good fundraisers because they are all at drive time, getting ready to go to work, and commuting to and from work, and making dinner time.
Englehardt also itemized the economic crisis throughout Pacifica. She clearly stated that when KPFA could not meet payroll on Sept 15, 2010 meant that in the future, either cuts would have to be made or KPFA would have to be closed, and she is committed to keeping all of the Pacifica stations open. She describes the fundraising agenda she has, the budget crisis she has to deal with, and the requirement that she is working on making sure that all stations have permanent general managers, which KPFA certainly does not have because of the obstructionist behavior of the Thug Hallinan Gang that claims to be union workers at KPFA who act as managers. She clearly states in response to Larry Bensky's defense of the Democratic Party that she is aware Democrat Obama is attempting to cut Social Security and bomb Iran, all supported by Democrats and Republicans, and she has brought speakers to KPFA to address those issues. We all, of course, heard about all of this on all news programs and news websites. They are not exactly news anymore as they are long-standing political footballs. Congratulations to Arlene Engelhardt!
For more information:
http://www.kpfa.org/archive/id/65277
Dennis Bernstein, host of one of the 3 top fundraising programs on KPFA, namely Flashpoints, from 5 to 6 p.m., Monday through Friday, speaks out for community radio on 11/12/10 in San Francisco Bayview in an article entitled "Clowns and conspiracy nuts: an open letter to Michael Krasny, KQED Forum host" at
http://sfbayview.com/2010/clowns-and-conspiracy-nuts-an-open-letter-to-michael-krasny-kqed-forum-host/
As noted in the comment above, Krasny's show had Bensky and Englehardt as guests. This occurred at 9:30 a.m. on Wednesday, Nov 10 at 9:30 a.m. The timeline this week was:
1) Monday night, Nov 8, 6 p.m. news, we get the announcement that the Morning Show is finally gone, to be replaced by 2 Los Angeles shows for the time being.
2) On Tuesday, Nov 9 from 7 to 9 a.m., The Terminated Morning Show Gang and their buddies in the Thug Hallinan/Concerned Listener/Wellstone Democratic Club had a 2-hour on-air tantrum on KPFA over loosing their job, as though they are exceptions to reality. Arlene Englehardt was in one studio attempting to present her position on the air, but was repeatedly and arrogantly cut off as were her supporters who tried to call in.
3. Krasny Show on Wednesday, 11/10 at 9:30 a.m. where Ms. Englehardt again attempted to present her position, constantly cut off by Bensky, allowed to do so by Krasny.
4. Uprising on Thursday, 11/11 at 8:15 a.m., Ms. Englehardt presents her position with far less interruptions on KPFA.
In the above-cited article, Dennis Bernstein goes into the history of cutbacks at KPFA, the truth about the expired $375,000 check, the importance of the unpaid staff who are the overwhelming majority of the workers at KPFA and Krasny's poor journalism in the above-cited show.
The title of the article is from Larry Bensky's insult that Dennis describes as follows:
"In your presence, Larry Bensky asserted, with an arrogant, auditory swagger, that unpaid staff – who struggle, with great financial hardship, to work at KPFA and comprise some 60 to 70 percent of staff, mostly people of color – are a bunch of “clowns” and “conspiracy nuts.” I have to assume I’m in that category as well, given what he said and how he parsed it."
He also states:
"I know you have great deal of respect for Larry Bensky, but why have someone who has been out of the network for FOUR years debating someone who is in the daily thick of it, who can’t talk details, names, facts etc. Apple and oranges."
"There are many people, Carol Spooner, soft-spoken lawyer, who beat back the corporate raid on KPFA in 1999, for instance, if as Judy said you wanted to have a “broader overview” of what is going on. Judy says you listened to Larry on the Morning Show free-for-all (the Tantrum) “and liked what he had to say.”"
"Your producer, Judy Campbell, Bensky’s former producer, stated to me in a phone interview that “this was very unfortunate” but that she “had no control over what the guests say” and that she was in a “rush to get the segment on while working on another segment.”"
"Flashpoints senior producer Nora Barrows Friedman, with eight years seniority, was ambushed by KPFA former management and had her hours slashed in half, without even a shop steward present, in total violation of the union contract. She went to a staff meeting for support, after writing an open letter to the public about what was happening at Flashpoints."
"At the staff meeting, she was, according to Nora, given a verbal beating by several of the current on-air vocalists for, can you imagine, going public."
"According to Nora, “I was subjected to a barrage of very hurtful and abusive behavior by … It was a traumatic and troubling experience for me. It was the definition of being subjected to a hostile work environment.”
"Have your heard the name of Nora Barrows Friedman or those of the other eight KPFA workers who were chopped by prior management? If not, why not? Yes, the plan was to bust the budget by expanding the budget of prior management’s close comrades and pay for it by getting rid of Flashpoints and Hard Knock Radio."
"Right after Nora Barrows Friedman was run out of the station, Polk Award-winning reporter Robert Knight, who did the Flashpoints headlines, was fired via a Fedex letter sent by the prior manager, who, as I said, worked closely with Brian Edwards Tiekert. Have you heard any on-air lament for this African American Polk Award winner? Knight was the only journalist to track down Manuel Noriega while he was still in hiding and interview him – an interview, by the way, that was immediately aired on NPR. I guess NPR likes clowns and conspiracy nuts."
"Finally, Mr. Krasny, it’s very troubling, to say the least, that you and your producer, Judy Campbell, “rushed” into a complicated, difficult situation regarding a crucial Bay Area “community institution” in the midst of a deep struggle to survive, knowing so little about it."
Dennis Bernstein describes his own credits as follows:
"I myself have won many awards for investigative reports, cover stories and essays that have appeared in The Nation, The Boston Globe, Newsday, Philadelphia Inquirer, New York Times, Denver Post, San Jose Mercury News, Kyoto Journal, Das Spiegel, Minneapolis Star Tribune, International Herald Tribune, Texas Observer, Pacific News Service/New America Media and many others."
He does all his work in the face of serious heart problems mandating open heart surgery 3 years ago, and for the usual low KPFA salaries. The kind of work he does could easily command a salary of over $100,000 a year elsewhere. Of course, he would have to stop supporting the Palestinian liberation struggle, which is ridiculous. His criticisms of Israel caused him to be disinherited by one of his wealthy Zionist relatives, according to his account on the air some time ago.
We need more programs like Flashpoints on KPFA and we need Robert Knight and Nora Barrows-Friedman on KPFA's airwaves again, every day.
http://sfbayview.com/2010/clowns-and-conspiracy-nuts-an-open-letter-to-michael-krasny-kqed-forum-host/
As noted in the comment above, Krasny's show had Bensky and Englehardt as guests. This occurred at 9:30 a.m. on Wednesday, Nov 10 at 9:30 a.m. The timeline this week was:
1) Monday night, Nov 8, 6 p.m. news, we get the announcement that the Morning Show is finally gone, to be replaced by 2 Los Angeles shows for the time being.
2) On Tuesday, Nov 9 from 7 to 9 a.m., The Terminated Morning Show Gang and their buddies in the Thug Hallinan/Concerned Listener/Wellstone Democratic Club had a 2-hour on-air tantrum on KPFA over loosing their job, as though they are exceptions to reality. Arlene Englehardt was in one studio attempting to present her position on the air, but was repeatedly and arrogantly cut off as were her supporters who tried to call in.
3. Krasny Show on Wednesday, 11/10 at 9:30 a.m. where Ms. Englehardt again attempted to present her position, constantly cut off by Bensky, allowed to do so by Krasny.
4. Uprising on Thursday, 11/11 at 8:15 a.m., Ms. Englehardt presents her position with far less interruptions on KPFA.
In the above-cited article, Dennis Bernstein goes into the history of cutbacks at KPFA, the truth about the expired $375,000 check, the importance of the unpaid staff who are the overwhelming majority of the workers at KPFA and Krasny's poor journalism in the above-cited show.
The title of the article is from Larry Bensky's insult that Dennis describes as follows:
"In your presence, Larry Bensky asserted, with an arrogant, auditory swagger, that unpaid staff – who struggle, with great financial hardship, to work at KPFA and comprise some 60 to 70 percent of staff, mostly people of color – are a bunch of “clowns” and “conspiracy nuts.” I have to assume I’m in that category as well, given what he said and how he parsed it."
He also states:
"I know you have great deal of respect for Larry Bensky, but why have someone who has been out of the network for FOUR years debating someone who is in the daily thick of it, who can’t talk details, names, facts etc. Apple and oranges."
"There are many people, Carol Spooner, soft-spoken lawyer, who beat back the corporate raid on KPFA in 1999, for instance, if as Judy said you wanted to have a “broader overview” of what is going on. Judy says you listened to Larry on the Morning Show free-for-all (the Tantrum) “and liked what he had to say.”"
"Your producer, Judy Campbell, Bensky’s former producer, stated to me in a phone interview that “this was very unfortunate” but that she “had no control over what the guests say” and that she was in a “rush to get the segment on while working on another segment.”"
"Flashpoints senior producer Nora Barrows Friedman, with eight years seniority, was ambushed by KPFA former management and had her hours slashed in half, without even a shop steward present, in total violation of the union contract. She went to a staff meeting for support, after writing an open letter to the public about what was happening at Flashpoints."
"At the staff meeting, she was, according to Nora, given a verbal beating by several of the current on-air vocalists for, can you imagine, going public."
"According to Nora, “I was subjected to a barrage of very hurtful and abusive behavior by … It was a traumatic and troubling experience for me. It was the definition of being subjected to a hostile work environment.”
"Have your heard the name of Nora Barrows Friedman or those of the other eight KPFA workers who were chopped by prior management? If not, why not? Yes, the plan was to bust the budget by expanding the budget of prior management’s close comrades and pay for it by getting rid of Flashpoints and Hard Knock Radio."
"Right after Nora Barrows Friedman was run out of the station, Polk Award-winning reporter Robert Knight, who did the Flashpoints headlines, was fired via a Fedex letter sent by the prior manager, who, as I said, worked closely with Brian Edwards Tiekert. Have you heard any on-air lament for this African American Polk Award winner? Knight was the only journalist to track down Manuel Noriega while he was still in hiding and interview him – an interview, by the way, that was immediately aired on NPR. I guess NPR likes clowns and conspiracy nuts."
"Finally, Mr. Krasny, it’s very troubling, to say the least, that you and your producer, Judy Campbell, “rushed” into a complicated, difficult situation regarding a crucial Bay Area “community institution” in the midst of a deep struggle to survive, knowing so little about it."
Dennis Bernstein describes his own credits as follows:
"I myself have won many awards for investigative reports, cover stories and essays that have appeared in The Nation, The Boston Globe, Newsday, Philadelphia Inquirer, New York Times, Denver Post, San Jose Mercury News, Kyoto Journal, Das Spiegel, Minneapolis Star Tribune, International Herald Tribune, Texas Observer, Pacific News Service/New America Media and many others."
He does all his work in the face of serious heart problems mandating open heart surgery 3 years ago, and for the usual low KPFA salaries. The kind of work he does could easily command a salary of over $100,000 a year elsewhere. Of course, he would have to stop supporting the Palestinian liberation struggle, which is ridiculous. His criticisms of Israel caused him to be disinherited by one of his wealthy Zionist relatives, according to his account on the air some time ago.
We need more programs like Flashpoints on KPFA and we need Robert Knight and Nora Barrows-Friedman on KPFA's airwaves again, every day.
For more information:
http://sfbayview.com/2010/clowns-and-consp...
You ought to work on that, Ms. Rosenberg
Hard Knock Radio’s Weyland Southon stated in an interview with Oakland Local that “If KPFA becomes strictly volunteer-run, I guarantee there will be no diversity on KPFA airwaves. Working people will be ghettoized in late night slots and the upper classed and privileged few will dominate the prime daytime slots. Production standards will nosedive and the resulting programming will not resonate with audiences that require more than some talking heads pontificating on soapboxes. If this is the end game, people of color and other disenfranchised communities will lose big.”
Hard Knock Radio’s Weyland Southon stated in an interview with Oakland Local that “If KPFA becomes strictly volunteer-run, I guarantee there will be no diversity on KPFA airwaves. Working people will be ghettoized in late night slots and the upper classed and privileged few will dominate the prime daytime slots. Production standards will nosedive and the resulting programming will not resonate with audiences that require more than some talking heads pontificating on soapboxes. If this is the end game, people of color and other disenfranchised communities will lose big.”
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