Former and Current North Coast Lawmakers Denounce Surprise Shutdown of KHSU
Earlier this month, community and staff gathered outside of the KHSU studio after learning of Humboldt State University’s decision to lay off seven staff members and cancel most local programming. [Photo by Ryan Hutson]
Senator Mike McGuire, Assemblymember Jim Wood, Retired Senator Wes Chesbro and Retired Assemblymember Patty Berg sent a strong message to the California State University Chancellor this week, denouncing the surprise shut down of the community’s radio station, KHSU, as a slap in the face to Humboldt State University students, employees and the community at large.
“Just last week KHSU concluded a successful community fundraising drive, where local businesses and residents put their priorities and names on the line to support the station and their award winning programing. The reckless manner and timing of HSU shutting down this amazing station could not have been worse and it’s time for the long-term decision making by a short-term administration to stop,” the letter stated.
The current and former North Coast legislators have formally requested the Chancellor’s office to not make any further moves with KHSU until the new HSU administration has been installed and require any further decisions by the next administration be made with transparency and community input.KHSU Letter
Earlier Chapters:
- KHSU’s Community Advisory Board Submits Vote of No Confidence in General Manager
- Do the Right Thing–a Member of KHSU’s Advisory Board Demands the General Manager’s Resignation
- ‘It’s a Death in Our Community’: Locals Reeling After KHSU Locks Doors and Streams Chico Radio Station
- KHSU’s Newly Appointed Acting Director Resigns Saying He Is ‘Saddened, Disappointed and Angry’
- Last Remaining Staff Member at KHSU Resigns
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Understandable sentiments but unfortunately not much of a legal leg to stand on over the community involvement issue, since CSU owns the facilities and broadcast license and the degree of community involvement is ultimately up to their discretion. There is, however, a possible liability for fraud with listener donations solicited under the false pretense of supporting local programs that the university administration had no intention of continuing. They would be wise to offer blanket refunds to all donors before the lawyers come a-knocking.
We’re about to find out if KMUD has the savvy to step into the void left by KHSU, but IMO local content providers would be much better off moving on to podcasts and streaming hosted on a Humboldt-centric digital platform than waiting for hosting on radio. Radio always comes with BS complications, as we’ve had so dramatically demonstrated.
The letter doesn’t intend or try to make a legal argument. The letter plainly states an opinion, intended as opinion, that the Chancellor’s Office should intervene and stop the outgoing administrators’ dismantling of KHSU and let the issue be handled by the incoming HSU president. It is within the Chancellor’s purview to put a halt to the destruction of KHSU and hand the issue over to the incoming president.
In what universe would it make sense to let an outgoing administrator burn bridges that does lasting damage to the university and community?
In a world where their superiors agree with the decision and are willing that the exiting employees take the blame for fait accompli with them when they go. I don’t know this is true but it is an obvious possibility.
It sure felt like fraud to me, that the station to which I had just made a donation killed all the programming that inspired me to give. As soon as I receive my member card….I will cancel my sustaining membership🐱
Since HSU is a department of the State of California, I can see the reason for this approach, but, the University of California and the State University systems have a great deal of autonomy and make decisions about services, personel and student life in a pretty heavy-handed and draconian manner, under most circumstances.
These Universities are old school, pretty hard line conservative, and have a great deal of power!
In my opinion, most of the fuss which followed the firing of staff has been useless, emotional as heck, fraught with personal drama, and, mostly, foisted upon the news as outrage, without much sense behind it.
The older folks who supported the station are some pretty interesting characters, and I wonder if the s\tudents share the feelings of the terminated employees, and , I wonder just what the back-story contains, from the University’s point of view…
My feeling is that there were some management issues which could not be resolved, and, that the Leaders decided to wash their hands of the station, which indicates that this was the only way to divest the problem individuals who were deeply entrenched and appear to have been overly enamored of and who had what sounds like poor boundaries as well as too much emotional investment here…
I understand being attached to it, but you don’t own it exactly, and some rules have to be followed. I suspect there is more to this story, and that we will never hear the actual reasoning used by the Administration prior to the closing and firing staff etc…
It is interesting that so many are protesting so much, when 50 people were terminated unfairly from St Joseph’s, and almost nobody said anything at all… Seems radio is more important to the community, than healthcare.
If you really need the station, buy a transmitter, get the permits, and start your own! Do a go fund me!
HERB in Trinidad, 50,000 watts!
Your comments are thought provoking.
Your argument ignores the fact that the citizens of the area contributed 30 K assuming that the voices that asked them for the donation would be there next week.
So far I called the station to request a refund but the phone just rang. An email to their admin address bounced and a comment probably won’t accomplish much. My next move is write accounts payable at the university and ask for a refund. we’ve been listening to KHSU since students did do most of the programming, before NPR evening news let alone all the other NPR stuff. NPR isn’t free, it ain’t cheap either.
Installing repeaters and translators-other radio transmitters in other words-wasn’t cheap either. Neither is feeding them electricity and maintaining their antennas. Maybe the station should have considered shrinking its footprint if contributions from outlying areas didn’t cover expenses.
The lack of honest communication with staff, volunteers, and the listening public was a breach of trust. May guilt spoil the sleep for a long time of those whose idea it was that this was the way to deal with the problem. Guilt and a nagging doubt they were really as competent as they thought they were.
I agree, based on my more general familiarity with listener supported – volunteer centered radio and watching some epic implosions, that there were probably some management issues that the old regime failed to resolve. Fretwell’s comment that operations were “dysfunctional and ego driven” is one I am inclined to lend credence based on my observations of group process at such stations. A lot of volunteers are parochially-minded freeloaders who do not realize that the airtime they are privileged to comes with a responsibility to the station as a whole, to build listenership with an optimal combination of breadth and depth of appeal. Echo chambers won’t do the job with the small audience offered by Humboldt. My sense is that most of the loyalty among listeners that leads to actual support is generated by a fraction of the programming and a large portion of the programming is dead weight in that regard. It doesn’t matter if a station is commercial or non-commercial, programming must generate revenue or the station will be a losing proposition. There has to be a rational weeding process based on ability to attract listeners who will support the station. Not a popular move among some, but very necessary. The other imperative is to attract a self-selection of volunteers who will take that issue seriously and to have development support for them.
My sense is that the point of no return was reached last summer, around the time of the disastrous meeting that Lorna Bryant decided to play race diva over which was followed shortly by the request for the CSU audit. Defaming someone over disagreement at a meeting is not a way to gain their loyalty. Professionalism has to be maintained not just even, but especially, under duress.
That’s probably true, and I appreciate the interesting comment. I said from the beginning, as a big fan of KHSU, that I really didn’t care or care to be informed of the internal politics, which it seems there is much. I just want a good source of news and info about the community. It’s something we need here- the lack of unbiased (real) news is a problem in this country. Especially in the more rural areas! I sure hope they get their act together- it sounds like a shitshow every time I click on the radio. Either dead air, long awkward NPR interludes…. or news about what’s happening in Chico.
You sure have balls the size of grapefruit if you think that station is no way bias. Oh that’s right your the same nut case that thinks no one should have a AR type rifle…go back under the rock you hide under…or your “safe room”.
I think npr news has not *much* bias- I think any news has some. No way around that. The fact that it doesn’t have paid ads is the key. Khsu as a station is definitely lefty.. too left wing and sensitive for me sometimes, but I can take or leave what I want to listen to. I do have really big balls though thanks for noticing.
Thanks for your thoughtful analysis!
I also think that it’s pretty creepy that these old guys are hanging around a campus radio station. Humboldt County Political Whackjobs do not belong on campus, and, if these people were employed by HSU, it is hard to imagine that they were making any significant amount of money, since salaries at CSU, and HSU in particular, are pretty poor…
All the protesters should band together, solicit donations, kick in their 401K’s and start their own freaking radio station. Then they could program whatever they want, say what they like, and they would then have the right to not be listened to, like every other media source…
We’re in a very interesting period of web journalist-entrepreneurs that could provide a model for the old KHSU crew if they’re savvy. A radio station isn’t really a necessity in the era of podcasts and live streams. It’s an expensive luxury. The web also provides opportunities for metrics indicating support for individual programs – unique hits, duration, audience feedback, donations and such. That could go a long way towards separating the wheat from the chaff.
Alan Olmstead, formerly of KHSU and KHUM, runs an interesting music streaming site called kaleidophonicsradio.com.
Harumph!
Our government officials are as inept as the mayor (mel brooks) in blazing saddles….
Humboldt County aka The Appalachia of California needs a community and tax dollar supported metal station with absolutely no negative hate news programs like Democracy Now!
Over and out.
Hate news? LMFAO! Hypocrisy?
Amy Goodman had the best ever interview with a president when Bill Clinton called in trying to stump for Al Gore. She asked some hard questions on his bombing of Kosovo (and other topics ) and he got really pissed… she said something to the effect: “you’re the most powerful person in the world; you can hang up on me anytime you want….”
Once she stopped her critiques and became a cheerleader for Obama she went to shit. I’ll listen to Noam Chomsky (“every post WW2 president would be hanged for war crimes under the Geneva Convention”) when he’s on, but Democracy Now (we’re a Republic) has become progressive propaganda.
Here’s the full interview:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FWx1bX4hWtM
Spot on assessment of the trajectory of Democracy Now! When Goodman started cheerleading for the regime change project in Syria, which has led to destruction and suffering on a scale comparable only to post-invasion Iraq in the middle east in addition to the strengthening of Al Qaeda and its ISIS offshoot, she crossed a huge line. It was a tough realization that the differences between GWB and Obama were around the margins and they were pushing in roughly the same direction, and too many progressives, including Goodman, have blinded themselves to avoid it. The scuttlebutt is that Goodman bears a large amount of responsibility for the implosion of Pacifica radio.
Great comments Ullr and thirdeye. Another thing to consider is Amy/ democracy now receives funding from the ford foundation. She knows just how long her leash is.
“Today on Regime Change Now your host Paul Wolfowitz interviews John Bolton on how surprisingly easy it is to sabotage third world electrical grids,but first this message from Northrop grumman”
Amy Goodman, just another bleeding-heart liberal media shill.
NPR, the bleeding-heart liberal FOX News equivalent.
I remember 4-8 years ago, NPR once covered topics in sciences frequently. Now it’s the same garbage as all major media outlets, whining about not getting their way.
*Note – I have nothing against bleeding-heart liberals so long as they don’t ruin my clothes or require me to take them to the hospital for coagulants. Nor do I have anything against conservative, bible-thumpers so long as they stay on their side of the fence and don’t throw their paper-weights at others.
The middle-ground is the way, my friends. Ancient knowledge.
I agree with ULLr and third eye- good comments- I don’t think NPR is biased left wing news. Please give some evidence. They probably pull the lever for Bernie Sanders, I agree, but the product they deliver is as middle of the road as it gets. Take the big advertising out and the big money, and the big ego of owners like beeps and Murdoch, and you get a good idea of how to find ‘good news’
I suggest you listen closely to the choice of words many of their reporters/hosts use and the manner in which they treat/interact with their guests.
NPR is good at concealing their biases, mostly, but a discerning listener can easily spot it.
If you don’t think NPR is biased, I fear for you.
They also love to use buzzfeed as a “reputable” source, which is is far from being honest and reputable. Let’s not forget their corporate overlords, Amazon and Facebook (government contracts and military/intelligence ties), among others.
This morning on NPR: “After extensive investigation by Mueller’s team, the report clearly exonerates President Trump of the original intent of the investigation which was collusion with Russia… it also revealed a tremendous waste of time by the media and has probably driven a wedge into American’s political outlook unlike any other event in modern history.”
Just kidding, they’re still fishing for something. After the 3rd story on the report this morning the final question was: “Any move towards impeachment?”
sounds like you listen to trump news, the way you are using his language is very telling. Collision is not the crime being investigated, it’s not even a crime at all. The report shows a lot of stupid and borderline criminal activity by trump, and it’s fair to point those things out. There’s a reason they call him Teflon don! He gets right to the edge but never quite gets caught. Fact is, impeachment would be a huge story, so what’s wrong with that being covered in the news? I think if you see the details in that report, it has a lot of big news, besides the things that trump did or didn’t do. And it says in the report clearly, by the way, that trump is not exonerated.
The report is certainly news worthy and should be covered, but it was not the result that the left wing biased news machines wanted. They are covering it and ignoring more important stories.
If they want to criticize Trump they should cover this (But the corporate media loves their wars….):
“So Much for the Anti-War President
As a candidate, Trump promised to end pointless Middle Eastern wars. He just vetoed a resolution to do exactly that.
As a presidential candidate, Donald Trump promised to put some reasonable limitations on how the United States conducted its post-9/11 wars across the Middle East.
“The legacy of the Obama-Clinton interventions will be weakness, confusion and disarray, a mess,” he said in April 2016, during his first major speech about foreign policy. “We’ve made the Middle East more unstable and chaotic than ever before.”
Since taking office, Trump’s track record has been decidedly mixed. He launched missiles into Syria. He ordered American troops home from Syria. He then reversed himself and sorta-kinda agreed to keep them there for a while longer.
But on Tuesday night, Trump unambiguously backed Forever War. He vetoed a congressional resolution that would have ended American military involvement in the Yemeni civil war—a conflict that has killed an estimated 50,000 people (scores more have died in a famine triggered by the conflict) without having any significant bearing on U.S. national security.”
https://reason.com/2019/04/16/so-much-for-the-anti-war-president/
If Trump gets impeached- which BTW does not mean what you apparently think it does- THAT would be news. But constantly raising the issue by the press is not news- its editorializing. Or rather as it’s displayed by liberals, it’s simple mudslinging. If liberals stopped thinking of themselves as avenging angels, they’d notice that to do the slinging, they have to get pretty dirty first. Such behavior is how Trump became President and, if they keep at it, he will get reelected if he wants it.
Remember when NPR sold out their integrity back in 2014 upon the request of the FDA? I do. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-the-fda-manipulates-the-media/
Willow Creeker-“I agree with ULLr and third eye- good comments- I don’t think NPR is biased left wing news.”
ULLr and Third Eye were not saying NPR is NOT left biased, exactly the opposite from my read. And much like everything you comment about, your view that NPR is not left wing news is indicative of just how clueless you are.
“They probably pull the lever for Bernie Sanders, I agree, but the product they deliver is as middle of the road as it gets.”
Soooooo the fact that they probably pull the lever for Bernie makes them “not left wing” and “middle of the road”??????? I rest my case. I guess that makes Joe Biden Alt Right.
My comment was about Democracy Now!, not NPR, and how meaningless their “progressive” credentials are. But now that you’ve made my opinion on NPR an issue, they basically deliver the same corporate consent-manufacturing pablum as do the other networks, with a slightly more sophisticated wrapping for an audience that tends towards the upper end of the formal education scale. They hit the meaningless “progressive” marks on cue to massage the sensibilities of coastal mainstream listeners sipping lattes.
Exactly.
Hey- everybody pulls the lever for somebody. That’s why I said no news is unbiased. But I think npr is as close as u get. It’s the people at the top and who pays them that determines what makes the news- we all know that. What’s your idea of the most unbiased news?
And I was making two different points there buddy.. some people can keep more than one thought in there head at a time.
It’s hard to get thoughts out while your typing sometimes.
Agreeable to one’s own thinking is not the same as unbiased. It just feels that way.
Exactly, Guest.
Take this eventful day, for example. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmAc-I48HC0&t=19s
Sorting the biased from the non-biased and identifying the biases and non-biases would create a biased chart of tallies for one person or another, for one reason or another.
Then there’s the rest of us who take it at face value and nothing more or nothing less.
Noam Chomsky is an asshole, and an enemy of freedom and justice. So is Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders, and the rest of the democrat list. Trump is vindicated. These clowns, like Swallwell and Schiff and the rest, who have hurt so many poor people with their inability to lower taxes and fuel prices, and food prices. The must come back to Calif, and fix the mess they have created. Kamala harris slept her way to the top, she has such a mess in frisco, she is not a leader, she has hurt so many, especially those in the prison system Trump has helped so many get a new life, and is working with those to help many more. Socialism is evil, it destroys lives, read a history book, commies and socialists have murdered over 100 million people in the last 100 years. They kill the grandparents and the old people first, as the elders know the truth, and it is not to their liking. They kill babies too, then the mentally challenged. Socialists rule, conservatives allow.
Lowering taxes DOES NOT HELP POOR PEOPLE as they do not earn enough to PAY taxes. Raising taxes on the wealthiest might help poor people by providing infrastructure jobs and decent healthcare.
Lowering taxes Plus removing obstacles to job creations creates more help for everyone across the board.
Not doing both at the same time is a recipe for failure, as we all well know from past experiences.
We live in an extremely socialist country, and have for years. If your a working class person or small business owner your just a source of labor and funding not a beneficiary. My concern stems from the unaccountable concentration of power in whatever form it takes, be it corporate, religious or governmental.
Swallowswell, schiff and harris are shills that want to impose their special brand of civil right’s violating faux left California stupidity on the rest of the country.
Erik,
thanks.
These four clowns have nothing better to expend their energies on than a college radio station? Glad they’ve solved all California’s problems. Pandering politicians.
Noam Chomsky is an asshole. He is not to be listened to, he is a disgusting person who hates this country. The big problem is he is listened to by college students who think he knows something. College students, beware, if you listen to him, and believe him, you are the enemy of freedom and justice for all. You are morons. Stand free, think your own thoughts, do not be a sheep and follow.I know that’s hard for you, but remember, you are a singular human, not part of the crowd, and you are allowed to say and believe what you want. No one can tell you who to be, or if you can or cannot say anything. Chomsky is the enemy of free thought.
Do you have a specific critique of Chomsky? He’s a rare independent thinker and identifies as a “philosophical anarchist” not a socialist. He was one of the few in the Ivory Tower to openly criticize Obama for carrying on H.W.Bush’s policies. He doled out critiques to the whole gaggle of US Presidents without regards to elephants or asses.
He’s also very critical of MSM and their real intent of carrying out the Corporate agenda.
You pick your enemy and shoot away. You don’t worry he’s the sole support of his mother or spent all his savings on surgery to save his dog. You don’t bother with nuance or complexity. You don’t want understanding in this effort- you want victory.
Why do people insist that having two alternate arguers going on produces truth if both arguments are biased? If both see nothing in the any other alternative.
Noam Chomsky is an old time believer in the Biblical God given uniqueness of humans, special, superior and intinsic. For him that means he has chosen a view point of a better world and he can’t allow divergent views despite his never having achieved reality anywhere at any time. It is just his nature to criticize so his ideas easily find a place with others who have a beef too. Everyone who wants others to be other than what they are will find some point where they agree with him. But only if they believe with him that ideas shape reality, not the reverse.
I don’t know what you mean. I appreciate anybody whose argument includes understanding that they don’t know things. I certainly don’t agree with everything Chomsky has to say (or anyone) but I appreciate that he is intellectually honest.
Humans are intrinsically special. Not because we any more than any other living thing on the planet, rather because we have put ourselves in a posistion to create the fate of every other living thing on the planet… except maybe bateria, fungi and cockroaches.
Buddhists call this a precious human birth. We’re special for one root reason: we have the ability to self cognize our own awareness, and communicate this with others. With this comes a great responsibility and the potential for great suffering. Our awareness is no different than any other sentiment beings awareness, in fact it’s inseparable. We just have the ability to know this, remember this, describe this, and explore this. It’s like every being is both the landscape and the map of that land scape (thought), we just got lucky and have access to the legend or key. A rational thinker would call this abstract thought, a religious thinker might call this “knowing God”. Non dualistic eastern schools of thought might call this wisdom or knowing “resting in the spontaneous presence of awareness itself “
The spirit in me bows to the spirit in you.
My point was that he was not intellectually honest in a conscious way. He simply objects. He is like the man who a holds a gun at another. He doesn’t ask the needed question about whether what he objects to has both a good and bad effect in order to maximize the good and minimize the bad. He simply objects to the bad. And shoots it.
He says constantly that this, that or the other thing is a better way and people only need to do this, that or the other thing for it to work. The only trouble is that people don’t do those things. And they don’t do them because, while there is some advantage in doing them, there are concomitant negatives with the sample thing. For example Noam Chomsky on health care. He says “The US healthcare system deviates from others in that it is largely privatized and lightly regulated, and – not surprisingly – is highly inefficient and costly. There is an exception in the US healthcare system: the Veterans Administration, a government system, much less costly.” Ignoring that the VA has had scandal after scandal about how it treats its patients and that might also be considered a measure of efficiency, indeed VA care is less costly because it simply will not pay competitive wages to doctors that they can get from private employers. So who does the VA get? Well they do have a few patriotic doctors of very good quality but what they also have a lot of doctors who were not found competent elsewhere but, due to the lack of responsibility innate in any bureaucracy, were recruited at the price the VA is regulated to offer. Mr. Chomsky simply ignores the downsides of enforcing his “better way.” https://chomsky.info/the-common-good/ This is typical of the inherent sense of superiority of the academic where failure is hardly possible for those who work in education while pay, if not necessarily great wealth, is assured. They live in a structured world that has rewarded them whether they produce across the board superior humans or generally idiots. The real world- the non academic world- deals harshly with failures but his experience with that is negligible. Although I bet he could point out very poor examples among his fellow intellectuals, and he does frequently, while simultaneously defending their right to continue employment as academic freedom. He lives in a magical world and thinks everyone else should too. But I doubt that, if he still has students, he would rejoice in their “academic freedom” to object to his personal teachings. https://chomsky.info/20130326/ he believes that restrictions on academic freedom are god awful but recommends this course of restricting behavior in just about everything else. How intellectually honest is that?
Ullr Rover, Thirdeye, and This Is My Name, are hitting it square on!! I have noticed the exact same thing over the years. Used to be I would drive to work in morning listening to NPR, what I felt was a great unbiased news source. In the last couple of years the bias just pours out of the radio, from the questions, the topics, the interviewees, all of it is biased against the current administration. I have written several letters to NPR with no replies to date.
I so much want to be able to listen to real news and formulate my own opinion. Are those days gone?
Yes, progressives want you on their band wagon or else, and if you disagree with them you support Trump. It is fucking pathetic!
Where’s Walter Lippmann when we need him?
(Answer: He’s long dead, right along with his vision of journalistic integrity.)
It’s yellow journalism all over again. William Randolph Hearst would be so proud.
Unbiased, objective news from the large (or big $) mass media outlets died with the likes of Cronkite. And since we clearly don’t have a Walter Lippmann to steer the ship, it appears to be gone for good.
Thankfully we still have some *local* journalists with integrity. Thank you Kym & the RHBB staff for retaining your objectivity! Keep up the exemplary work, we need you!
Yup, hitting it square on. Yup, those days are gone; it’s getting worse exponentially.
Bill,
thanks.
This is overview of the Spygate is highly respected by and appreciated, for those who need to find their ball bearings on it. https://www.theepochtimes.com/spygate-the-true-story-of-collusion_2684629.html
The epoch times has been mostly decent despite their preferences. (never trust any news station/reporter to be or to remain true to integrity). https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCw14RqKlnGoxHPHmqO9LxEQ
A few others like Sara Carter, John Solomon, and other independents seem to be awesome investigative journalists, worth keeping abreast of.
Twitter, of course, has citizen and official journalists from all over the world that puts the missing links to the puzzles together with their individual reporting vs the 1% corporate owned main stream media talking points. (90% of main stream media is owned by the 1% elite). But, of course, they’re constantly being shadow banned, censored and even plain out banned.
There is a missing chapter to this story, that immediately preceded the writing of the letter above.
The day before the letter was released, the HSU SENATE VOTED OVERWHELMINGLY TO CONDEMN THE ACT OF SHUTTING DOWN KHSU as a collaborative effort between the university and the community. (See link below).
We, in the US pride ourselves in having crafted a ‘system of checks and balances’ among power centers of government and agencies. And the HSU Senate is, like the voice of the people (via protest, etc.) and other entities are valuable and needed as part of the system of decision making. That the HSU Senate voted so decisively is telling of the degree to which this act is regarded as not in the best interests of HSU or the community!
https://thelumberjack.org/2019/04/16/breaking-hsu-senate-condemns-adminstration-for-gutting-khsu/
Who shut it down?
Where do the donations go?
Donations are gone. Pledges can be withdrawn. Better to pledge now and pay later than to donate and be screwed. If it was me, which it isn’t, and the donation payment had not processed/cleared the account, I would place a stop-payment on that transaction.
Unfortunately, money talks.
The future is here and as harsh as this sounds radio stations have become archaic. We now have live time (virtually) free streaming services. A few concerned citizens and djs could have a free broadcast going with a little effort and an unbelievably low overhead. This service could be up and running almost instantaneously.
YES! YES! YES!
The web also provides means of monetizing content for providers directly, and monetizing the hosting service through its hosted content, without disrupting content to harangue the audience for money.
It is looking like the Matteel community center. Another non Profit spending more than it can bring in.
Left biased media.like KMUD. Good riddance