The uselessness of Pacifica and WBAI

JoAnn Kawell on Facebook

What’s up with WBAI? Why aren’t THEY live broadcasting the Wall Street protests. Fer gawd sakes, their studios are right on Wall Street. Shame, shame, triple shame. This is final proof, if any more was needed, that the Pacifica network is completely moribund.

Doug Henwood seconds that

Excellent point. WBAI [...]

Pacifica violates own rules, takes corporate money

And from the Vampire Squid (Goldman Sachs), no less…

However, outraged listeners have forced KPFA to not cancel Democracy Now.

The secret Obama-9/11 conspiracy

Marc Cooper uncovers the hideous truth. Obama was responsible for 9/11.

A few days after I posted an blog critical of the decaying Pacifica Radio stations, the comment section was infested by a plague of 9-11 “truthers.”

Their basic argument: the Bush admin either plotted the attack on the Twin Towers and/or allowed it to [...]

KPFK and KPFA circling the drain

Marc Cooper, who was purged a while back from KPFK, explains how now it really does appear that Pacifica Radio is about done for. There are snarling (and endless) internecine feuds, cratering numbers of listeners, and even a 26 day long pledge drive.

Do you know what 26 straight days of fundraising does to your [...]

The Pacifica Follies continue

The WBAI Local Station Board (part of Pacifica Radio) wishes to apologize because their database apparently went kerflooey and restored itself to a year-old backup just before mailing labels for ballots were printed. Thus, many ballots were mailed to the wrong people while other eligible people didn’t get them at all.

Even though [...]

What’s happening to Pacifica Radio?

Pacifica, a proudly left-wing independent radio network, has been wobbling noticeably lately. Endless fundraisers. Rumors of ultra-leftists trying to jack the leadership of WBAI in NY. KPFA in Berkeley was riven by factions when we lived in S.F. recently. The programming is suffering too.

On KPFK in L.A. on Friday, Sherry Beale of Healthy [...]