New College Independent Alumni/ae Association

One of the things you can always count on with the Bay Area moral theatrics industry, is that when faced with exposure, they stick together. On Friday March 21st, KPFA radio’s program La Onda Bajita (produced by Miguel Molina and hosted by Francisco Herrera) aired a one-hour live New College special broadcast. According to Herrera, the program was not intended to be informational, or to address the “lies in the [San Francisco] Chronicle and [SF] Weekly”, but was to serve as a testimonial and fundraiser for the school.

While we have no grudge with KPFA per se, Herrera’s on-air admission of extreme bias should give listeners pause. By choosing to side with the corrupt New College administration in opposition to the independent alumni, Herrera continued a long tradition of deceptive propaganda by Bay Area career activists posing for dollars. As a member of the Fourth Estate, he should be asked to surrender his credentials.

Self-promotion by pious poseurs is nothing new, but when they commit fraud as trustees and officers of an institution of higher learning, all their smoke-blowing about a “beloved community” should be ridiculed, not celebrated by local media. Were Herrera not compromised by his New College-affiliated celebrity, he might have had the integrity to look into the documented charges referenced in the Chronicle and Weekly, but that would require honesty—an attribute often missing in those who view activism as a career rather than a civic duty.

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