The business's existing customers objected, so they rallied the media and some portion of the surrounding community to their cause. And the owners backed down. News coverage of the Pacifica-KPFA wars has attracted interest from a disproportionally large audience, far greater than the station's listenership before, during, or after the controversy. Most Californians, in fact, could not care less whether KPFA chose to broadcast material that was progressive, lunatic, or translated into Pig Latin. But no matter.
Birds fly and fish swim.
Similarly, if you bestow otherwise normal people with the title of legislator, they will intuitively begin to legislate. If you also tell them that they are regulators, they will regulate. And if there is neither legislating nor regulating that can be done, they will hold hearings. Such is the order of nature. Throughout the protests, Aroner saw large numbers of her constituents gathered together for some reason other than her.