KPFK LA GM and others are being targeted for termination for expressing opposition to expanding snake oil & infomercial-type broadcasts on Pacifica. Yay Free Speech, unless of course you’re exposing some inconvenient truths about what’s going on behind the curtain with the board directors of Pacifica. See LA Times link here for a background briefing. …
Campaign Launched By Donors to Save Pacifica Radio Network Faces Plummeting Audience, Increasing Deficits, and Potential Insolvency (SF, CA) The Pacifica Safety Net (PSN), a California non-profit organization, formed by Pacifica radio listeners, volunteers, and donors officially launched a website and posted a five-minute videotaped statement by actor and author Peter Coyote. Lack of competent …
Due to years of mismanagement and the role of sectarian splinter groups and self-interested actors, the Pacifica Foundation finds itself on the precipice of either bankruptcy or dissolution. Pacifica has turned to fringe conspiracy theories, hate speech, snake oil and infomercials to raise money, betraying the Pacifica mission and making those of intelligence, conscience and decency cringe.
