Ha, what a hoot this thread is! Amazing how many folks who sound informed don't really have a clue about KFAR, about what they were doing nor why. Most of what I've read here is self-perpetuating rumor and innuendo and laughably false. No one at KFAR is looking for pity from anyone. We knew what we were doing and we expected the hit. We were also surprised it took so long. But we're also dead set and determined to return to the airwaves - and we will. KFAR broadcast news and views that none of the other pansy stations would touch - and still won't. We take pride in what we do - taking a stand when no one else will lift a finger. And yes, most of us are willing to go to jail for what we believe in: a free and unencumbered exchange of information. No one can make an informed decision unless they know what the hell is going on out there - and KFAR did its best to impart that information. Screw the FCC if they won't grant us a license. Somebody has to say something, legalities be damned! The ship will sail again! In the meantime, if you want to avoid all of the rumor and inaccuracies plaguing this thread, just go to http://www.kfar.org and log onto the message boards. You can get the real skinny there.
Until the day speech is truely free...
- GGPan
BREAKING NEWS: Federal Marshals raid KFAR
Just an addendum. This is from the KFAR djs' private listserve, a post from Southside Mike. I hope you don't mind, Mike, but what you said deserves to be heard, especially since so many folks with opinions about KFAR don't actually seem to ever listen to KFAR. Imagine that: an ignorant and uninformed opinion...
Well, you know what they say about opinions and assholes....
"I just wanted to write the listserve to say how depressed I am today over the loss of the greatest cultural outlet Knoxville has ever had....our KFAR. I find myself checking 90.9 to see if one of the DJs has set up to broadcast again. But of course just static.
"It has been a honor for me to have had my one hour show, KFAR Country, for close to two years. It was my favorite hobby. But most of all I am going to miss all the shows, all the diversity....all the COMMERCIAL FREE music and news. Speaking of the news...I feel so uninformed today without hearing some KFAR news. Just five minutes of KFAR news reports more relevant news than CNN, CNBC, CSPAN, or any other cable news outlet.
"Maybe its the weather, maybe its my own personal issues, but the loss of KFAR really has me bummed out big time. I never thought I could have learned so much listening to the radio but this radio child feels so much more intellegent and enlightened due to listening to that small community radio station up on a ridge in south Knoxville."
Southside Mike
Said it a helluva lot better than I could. Thanks, Mike.
Catch you on the air, bro. 90.9. The only station that matters.
- GGPan
Well, you know what they say about opinions and assholes....
"I just wanted to write the listserve to say how depressed I am today over the loss of the greatest cultural outlet Knoxville has ever had....our KFAR. I find myself checking 90.9 to see if one of the DJs has set up to broadcast again. But of course just static.
"It has been a honor for me to have had my one hour show, KFAR Country, for close to two years. It was my favorite hobby. But most of all I am going to miss all the shows, all the diversity....all the COMMERCIAL FREE music and news. Speaking of the news...I feel so uninformed today without hearing some KFAR news. Just five minutes of KFAR news reports more relevant news than CNN, CNBC, CSPAN, or any other cable news outlet.
"Maybe its the weather, maybe its my own personal issues, but the loss of KFAR really has me bummed out big time. I never thought I could have learned so much listening to the radio but this radio child feels so much more intellegent and enlightened due to listening to that small community radio station up on a ridge in south Knoxville."
Southside Mike
Said it a helluva lot better than I could. Thanks, Mike.
Catch you on the air, bro. 90.9. The only station that matters.
- GGPan
Excess is the road to moderation. Exceed! Exceed!
Pan131 wrote:In the meantime, if you want to avoid all of the rumor and inaccuracies plaguing this thread, just go to http://www.kfar.org and log onto the message boards.
- GGPan
Maybe you could quit laughing at us long enough to explain the inaccuracies?
I *did* sift through the sites mentioned, except the NS board, which I don't care to register for just to read. The NS site itself, either.
In any case I know no more than I did before, except the name of the complaintant.
JaNell wrote:Maybe you could quit laughing at us long enough to explain the inaccuracies?
Perhaps my dear, you are asking too much of them.
“That proves you are unusual, returned the Scarecrow; and I am convinced the only people worthy of consideration in this world are the unusual ones. For the common folks are like the leaves of a tree, and live and die unnoticed.â€
I didn't listen to KFAR. I want that to be right out in the open from the beginning.
I have had some experience in open media warfare (re: free speech) throughout the mid- and late-90s, though, and it's really fairly simple.
If you break the law to do what you believe is right, you're eventually going to get burned. I've had a shitload of friends who had their houses broken into by the Feds, been physically beaten, and had all kinds of horrid interrogation techniques performed on themselves to make certain that they were not hiding something in some discreet orfice.
From what Jack and Spam say, this was fairly low-key. Yeah, what they were doing was right. I won't argue that point at all. I have to respect them for what they did, and are, according to Pan, going to continue to do.
But it is against the law. And when you break the laws that have been set forth to keep things stable, you get in trouble, regardless of whether what you were doing was right or wrong.
Unforfunately, the law all too often has very little to do with what's right or wrong. In this case, it's in part because of the scope they have to cover. Like has been mentioned prior, some multi-billion dollar company could just elbow everyone into silence without those laws. And sometimes, it takes people willing to bleed a little to get those laws fixed so that our rights are protected in such a way that the protection itself does not restrict other highly valued rights.
Thus, my proverbial hat is off to those who've busted (literally and proverbally) their knuckles fighting for free speech. But I'm fairly certain that those involved understand that the shit hasn't even come within a city block of the fan, yet. The message of true free speech - and the sharing of information - will have to be broadcast to every goddamned television set, radio receiver, and ip address that someone could possibly be watching before it will be heard by the right people, at the right times. That message will have to be so visible that even a blind, deaf, paraplegic could access and understand it in all of its intristic quality.
(Sounds kind of megalomaniacal, eh?)
Statistically speaking, it's far more likely to come to pass if those involved hug the lawbooks for a time and produce legal broadcasts while they build some serious notoriety^H^H^H^H publicity amongst the masses. Hence I agree with Jack about the internet feeds being a damn good idea.
At any rate, that's my rant, and there are my two cents. I probably should expect some change.
Flame on.
I have had some experience in open media warfare (re: free speech) throughout the mid- and late-90s, though, and it's really fairly simple.
If you break the law to do what you believe is right, you're eventually going to get burned. I've had a shitload of friends who had their houses broken into by the Feds, been physically beaten, and had all kinds of horrid interrogation techniques performed on themselves to make certain that they were not hiding something in some discreet orfice.
From what Jack and Spam say, this was fairly low-key. Yeah, what they were doing was right. I won't argue that point at all. I have to respect them for what they did, and are, according to Pan, going to continue to do.
But it is against the law. And when you break the laws that have been set forth to keep things stable, you get in trouble, regardless of whether what you were doing was right or wrong.
Unforfunately, the law all too often has very little to do with what's right or wrong. In this case, it's in part because of the scope they have to cover. Like has been mentioned prior, some multi-billion dollar company could just elbow everyone into silence without those laws. And sometimes, it takes people willing to bleed a little to get those laws fixed so that our rights are protected in such a way that the protection itself does not restrict other highly valued rights.
Thus, my proverbial hat is off to those who've busted (literally and proverbally) their knuckles fighting for free speech. But I'm fairly certain that those involved understand that the shit hasn't even come within a city block of the fan, yet. The message of true free speech - and the sharing of information - will have to be broadcast to every goddamned television set, radio receiver, and ip address that someone could possibly be watching before it will be heard by the right people, at the right times. That message will have to be so visible that even a blind, deaf, paraplegic could access and understand it in all of its intristic quality.
(Sounds kind of megalomaniacal, eh?)
Statistically speaking, it's far more likely to come to pass if those involved hug the lawbooks for a time and produce legal broadcasts while they build some serious notoriety^H^H^H^H publicity amongst the masses. Hence I agree with Jack about the internet feeds being a damn good idea.
At any rate, that's my rant, and there are my two cents. I probably should expect some change.
Flame on.
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