The show is eventually reinstated after widespread protests. On September 1, KPFK chief Mark Schubb bans veteran award- winning news reporter Robin Urevich from the station. On Nov. 1, PNN News Director Dan Coughlin is summarily removed as national news director. After airing a news brief on a Pacifica-affiliates boycott of Pacifica programming. Pacifica News anchor Verna Avery-Brown walks off the job in protest.
Managers play music over the story and return to the show once the item is over.
In early December, WPFW cancels CounterSpin, FAIR's radio show. At the time, WPFW offers no rationale for its actions. Later, a Pacifica press release claims the show did not raise enough money on the listener-sponsored station. Avery-Brown decries censorship and the disturbing trend away from progressive coverage in Pacifica's national news. Bochan's three pieces draw the connection between recent censorship at WBAI and the censorship of radical ideas and dissenting voices in the American 20th Century.