{"article":{"id":210912,"heading":"KPFK is biased, still, while pretending to be &quot;fair&quot;","author":"sidestepper","created":"2007-11-30 18:02:27","modified":"2007-12-03 08:13:35","last_modified":"Mon, 03 Dec 2007 15:13:35","article":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>KPFK programming  is not 'fair and balanced' at all, and doesnt claim to be, mostly being  just reactive, oppositional, and looking for any person\/group that claims to be a VICTIM that the rebels can get behind to be RIGHTEOUSLY ANGRY and provocative. <br><br> To expect this station to be neutral, to offer more than 1 side seems to be asking  too much. <br><br> The only benefit is that the side that these programmers and staff support provides information that is less available, like listening to someone you Know is Off Balance and deliberately so and yet you\/I want to hear what they have to say, anyhow...not that they are Right or Better or Superior, tho they may want to think so. <br><br> And then occasionally educational information, social\/ psychological\/philosophical tid bits creep in at times that is not heard elsewhere too. <br><br> Some of us have realized that KPFKers want to be \"rescuers\", \"Saviors\", Heroes most of all, and to confront any majority, any more prevalent view, any more common thinking, anything OTHER than what is said &amp; heard elsewhere. That provides a very limited version of the world. <br>  <br> It also provides some thought-provoking, even frustratingly biased, points of view. <br><br> Many of us who subscribe frequently turn away from the station when the programmer wants to harass us all with their \"only true\" version of whatever soap box they have just chosen. Then we just stay away for a long while, being 'turned off'. <br><br> This limited and discriminatory way of voicing views is not beneficial to the funding or loyalty of subscribers to this station but no one seems to care anyway. While claiming to be open and honest and questioning authority - it is only questioned elsewhere, never here inside the station, until they want to get rid of a GM or something drastic like that, but not before catastrophe has struck. oh well..... <br><br> Who can tell those who are biased, discriminate, accuse and believe themselves to be privileged to do so on our paid airwaves that they are abusing the mission of the organization and it's funding providers ? <br><br> Who can tell those who deny their abuse that they are impure too ? <br><br> KPFKers dont even read the Listener Forum on the website posts to find out what other ones think or worry about. Or if a few do read it, they do not contribute, reply, respond, or make themselves known to create \"a conversation = communication\", as the Forum is probably set up to be. <br><br> How hard it is to say something \"other\" than what is stated on air repeatedly as \"the Truth\"! <br>  <br> Which is obviously, the station's version as \"the only one\" <br>  <br> again....again...repeated fervently...again. <\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","contact":"","link":"","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/plain","summary":"KPFK is not as claimed repeatedly, but mostly prefers OPPOSITIONAL views and programmers want to be &quot;rescuers&quot; to be Heroes and superior. Sorry. Bad game plan. ","numcomment":2,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2007\/11\/210912.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[{"id":210968,"heading":"KPFK aint no heroes now","article":"Yep, you've got it correctly, thank you.\r\n\r\n Yes, The desire to be heroic, powerful, and act as &quot;savior&quot; seems to  be the flavor of most programmers as well as the volunteers encountered at KPFK.  The desire to do good 'for the world '  may come down further in  their actual priorities, but the\r\napparent desperation to 'save the [self claimed] oppressed' and elevate the minorities seems to be most important mission...to thus be hero, elevated, superpowered. Their own personal desires to be gods?\r\n\r\nValidation of goodness and righteousness is given easily through  this radio media,  by giving voice to selected   [very selectivedly chosen]   groups.   So promoters of any and all  alternate-divisive-reactive-rebellious-'other'-helpless seeming groups are given credance and much fanfare, but which is also often unwarranted by any researched factual information of their accomplishments or  their personal alliances either.\r\n\r\nMany of us think that this emphasis on making  only &quot;whatever is  other&quot;  sound Good, sound more Righteous, sound Superior for sure, sound Exemplary, etc. is taken to extremes at this KPFK place of worship.\r\n\r\nThanks for pointing out this aspect of what occasional listeners may not notice... so that we can be more honestly critical of what we hear on this unfair and very discriminative station now. It has not always been this slanted  & limited as it has been in recent years. [ The KPFK discrimination is  different from those who most often  like to  make  their own claims of  discrimination actually, it is in the opposite direction, but denied.]\r\n\r\nWe hope a more balanced version of this world at kpFK emerges after the balloting and staff changing settles into stability. We hope for a more honest version between who KPFK supports and encourages and it's actual subscribers. \r\n\r\n","author":"11th Responder","parent_id":210912,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2007-12-01 22:50:21","modified":"2007-12-01 22:50:21","fileurl":""},{"id":211025,"heading":"Still Caught in the Dialectic","article":"They're still caught in the dialectic mode of thought.  &quot;They&quot; being KPFK, but also these two critics.\r\n\r\nIf you think there are two sides to every story, you'll only see two sides.  There are more, of course.\r\n\r\nIt's just, when there's a contest for resources, or power, or to determine the &quot;truth&quot; of a situation, all the participants\/sides are forced to choose a side, and put their work toward winning a victory for its chosen side.\r\n\r\nKPFK, political parties, businesses, countries... all sometimes seeking out conflict.  They're seeking situations where a conflict can polarize people against each other, with the hope of gaining power, if only temporarily.","author":"binaural","parent_id":210912,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2007-12-03 08:15:21","modified":"2007-12-03 08:15:21","fileurl":""}]}