I love KPFT and Pacifica – the station is one of Houston's most valuable assets and one of the best antidotes to corporate media. The hijacking of our public airwaves by corporate media has played a venal and central role in getting us to our present state of endless war, alienation and debt-shackled consumer stupor. Indeed, if our public airwaves were truly used for the public interest (as legally required), KPFT's unique role in Houston would no doubt be less exceptional and would not engender the fevered passion and sense of urgency so many of us have for the station.