I love this freedom, that INDY MEDIA offers us - to reveal and discuss and cuss at KPFK because there is no place else we can speak to strangers and anonymousers with cute names about our concerns. Genuine concerns. Real worries. Urgent questions. and some bits of facts too.

Ian Masters did the un-bearable, the un-acceptable, the impolite = he on-the-air bad-mouthed other unnamed programs and their beliefs...ridiculed their views... while the station was desperately pretending to be a united front ..and ever-so-humbly & honestly asking, begging, screeching for money in any which way...even with unbelievable [advertisements] of products and exaggerated claims for those 'premium' products......

and since it is a Free Speech Station that KPFK claims to be, I guess this is ok too....

KPFK is free to make wild claims in order to raise lots of money to pay for whatever they think we should know nothing about. Like = How the station is run, what is happening within the KPFK ranks and staff & programmers, how the money is actually spent besides revealed lawsuits, or if the LSB has any advisory power or influence over the stuck-in-position staff ?

Ian Masters and others are free to make statements that no one likes to admit - as someone may be shamed or angry and do their pay-backs behind opaque station doors. The station is fraction-ated, [yep] broken on the inside, divided and dysfunctional.

Different opinions of what is TRUE , always stated as if true forever and for everyone, has now emerged about the station itself, now on air. Having revealed the reality - that not everyone agrees about all the political events or who should have what powers...or for how long either.... duh.... and that inside the station they are not sweetly smiling at each other either ! duh.... and Ian Masters said it aloud, on the air, and showed us more openly what is going on within... duh...

even tho I cringed at how those listeners who may not know some of the participants involved in this factionalization may see the station = see it as finally cracking & crumbling and falling ...and others even hoping for that to take effect... but I dont. In fact, I presume there are more than 2 divisions, more than just a pair of oppositional antagonistic groups, and that there are many fractionalized sects, cults, gangs, alliances and sets that have-to-work-together anyhow.

But the fake image KPFK hypocritically wants to present is no different than any other business ..." love, solidarity = we are all together and love each other = and no one - no one ! - is allowed to admit or say otherwise, for then we may lose some of our respect. our incoming money. yep.

The truth of divisiveness is too dangerous to acknowledge so many have risen up to accuse Ian of slander or leaking or maybe even trying this =prohibited-acts-are-punishable-even-at-free-radio-stations.

Some of us thought that KPFK was strong enough to be open and reveal it's insides and still stand, survive, and grow. Some of us hoped that the honest Truth prevailed about KPFK, not just as revealed about other corporations & businesses & governments . Some of us thought KPFK would not enter into the addictive denial and shame that weaker organizations utilize most often.

Thank you Indy Media Volunteers & Workers !!!

For letting more be revealed on thise written pages than on our free-speech air waves.

KPFK had [past tense, dead now] a web Listener forum that was not well utilized, as few responded to the issues raised .... but it was still a place to communicate that centered around the station and it's problems. And those who wrote on the Listener Forum hoped fervently that the staff would maybe [?] ...maybe read their comments, suggestions, questions & concerns too. But it was removed with the excuse of spam proliferating, as if this didnt happen everywhere that is not cut out, as this service to the loyal listeners & volunteers was done.

I never found out if anyone at the station ever bothered to read anything on the Listener Forum. If they cared what others think or say or feel. No indication of anyone reading the comments about KPFK on their website seemed to affect or get any response, except for someone who added a brief "you are wrong" or "I agree" on rare occasion. It was a blank field in which hope that what was written would be read or help the station improve, hope that went just as blank.

We never heard any feedback from anyone at the station, or LSB, or hardly anyone at all. . We never knew if we were writing-pissing into the wind and just getting soaked, voicing our concerns all for nothing.

So we also thank Ian Masters is voicing what others dont dare do...letting everyone else know there is no unity nor much agreement at Our Station...a million + richer for all the sales pitches we had to tolerate recently ...

and the KPFK elections should have made that clear with all the shenanigans that did occur and then had to be repaired. Yet was the Elections supervisor Peters charged for the $$$ and consternation his mistakes caused so many ? Even if they were actually unintenional and stupid, was the station reinbursed for all that extra cost and work to fix the elections ????? yet another secret not revealed...is he still working for Pacifica and being powerful or paid for his kind of 'work' ?

will we ever know ? secrets...who will tell ? Do we need more 'fact checkers' and researchers to spend time elsewhere to find out what happened or happens at Our Station ?

Most listeners didnt even bother to vote in the elections anyhow, so if not Ian raising his ire and voice, they would have remained unaware of the interior instability or divisions that continue to exist.

And maybe they are now worse than before ? Didnt the elections prove that KPFK is not working above board and honestly giving fair and even chances to all candidates ?

What kind of clues do we need to see the craziness and cracks and foibles and stupidities committed in Our Name, as it Is Our KPFK ? Just like we say it is "our government", our taxes...so it is Our KPFK, our pledges ....used and borrowed 'in our name' for our benefit and information is supposed to be given to us who pay for it too.

Even at t his point, those of us who CARE, but do not attend the boring, hostile environment of the LSB meetings or other committee meetings - in order to save our time & sanity, of course - we dont know what is going in the station we thought we paid for.... for services we could trust.

Question: How can we trust what is said or reported on KPFK if we cant trust the staff-mangement-LSB-programmers because they are all pretending they are

working together for our behalf ?????

If they lie in appearing to be in agreement, then maybe they lie about other things they say on air too ?????

If they - all concerned and inside KPFK - hide and keep secret what is happening in that structure we call "listener sponsored" corporation, how do we know it is not another version of collapse-ready-to-happen, or take-over-already-happening or financial-ruin-yet-unannounced ???? huh?

Ian may have sounded 'bad' but he also did us all a favor just the same. Ever listen to family hateful - irritating - scary - squabbles and think that family is going to fall apart, and then what ? "The end of the world is coming !!!!" That is when we are children, not when we are already responsible adults.

We need to know the reality of what is happening in OUR KPFK, from various versions, and not be pacified as if we needed infant formulas and the KPFK image carefully maintained upright.

So I again, let more of us thank Ian Masters, for venting his own spleen on his own program and giving us a hint that things are not as cool or calm or cooperative as the radio station's IMAGE is made to appear....and as we know, appearances are deceiving, especially at our beloved KPFK....very deceiving...it is mostly appearances because the hypocrisies are now showing thru = leaking, gushing, hemoragging out actually, on air too ! And we are hearing the damaged results.

Sounds dramatic ? of course.

But so is all the fear-mongeringplayed aloud there too , the pleas to please buy stuff to save our lives with stuff {red or green or gold] that only KPFK offers during fund drives, stuff that we would never pay for at that price anywhere else. But fear brings in 'sales revenues' and so it is used, proliferating OUR airwaves. For many many days.

thanks to only the very few programmers who dont bow to the management and staff and LSB seat-holders and dont just stay quiet behind their microphones....while the majority, the rest, are just hoping not to lose their slots -so they continue to collude and hide and dont tell us anything.

Thanks Ian! for making more apparent the friction & dispute, or at least one of them, anyhow. Tell us more of what we could not know if you do not expose that too. Not just USA governmental stuff, KPFK governmental stuff is important to us too. Keep it up!

Let some who know ...tell us, so we can help...help fix things....advise...inform....share ideas and aims... to not let a few just hog the airwaves for their group only .... as it seems happens a lot at KPFK. Let some air in finally ! ventilate and open up the air waves !