The KPFA News Department, run by Aileen Alfandary and Mark Mericle (both partisans of the KPFA faction known as SaveKPFA/Concerned Listeners), is aligned with a faction of the Democrat Party (WDRC). They are often repeating state propaganda by their reliance or attachment to the major news wires and corporate news threads. And, as Democrat partisans, they often frame things toward Obama apologism and Democrat apologism. Listeners need to denounce them (and Democracy Now!, too) when they fail in their obligations as truth-tellers.