<html><body>This is crap Tim. John Coate didn't "lay off" Christina. That's just how he couched it when he promised her she'd be rehired as soon as the finances improved. <br />What he really did, was take the first step towards shutting down the News Department as an independent entity; an entity with the contractual right to negotiate its budget. And which had control over the content. <br />I'm not even sure now that cancelling the news department and replacing it with 5 minutes of press releases and recitation from the Press Democrat was really within his purview. And if so, what a mistake. Where was the Board oversight? <br />David Brooksher was canned because he resisted Coate's interference in his news gathering, which began to be an appropriately focused attention on the struggle over the extension of the Marine Sanctuary zones in our region.<br /> What David did at KMUD was put together and train a team of local correspondents. In other words: Bush Radio. <br />--Which is what Christina wanted to do at KZYX/Z. Mary Aigner, in all the years she has been there, has yet to recruit and train a bilingual public affairs team. And has done nothing to replace the local programming we once aired re. Native American culture and issues. You are out of your league here and either manufacturing information or intentionally deaf to what went on. And continues. <br />As a first step: you need to do a reality check with Christina before you throw her name around. --beth bosk<br /><blockquote><div style="width:500px;background:rgb(228,228,228);"><div style="font-weight:bold;">From:</div> "Tim Bray" <tbray@wildblue.net></div><br /><div style="font-weight:bold;">To:</div><kzyxtalk@lists.mcn.org><br /><div style="font-weight:bold;">Cc:</div><br /><div style="font-weight:bold;">Sent:</div>Tue, 11 Feb 2014 19:59:21 -0800<br /><div style="font-weight:bold;">Subject:</div>Re: [Kzyxtalk] David Brooksher<br /><br /><br /><div class="moz-cite-prefix">Congratulations David! I hope he
succeeds.<br /><br />
As for his tenure at KZYX, this is my understanding: He was hired
on a probationary basis (6 months, I think). At the end of that
period, his performance was evaluated, and the GM decided not to
offer him a permanent position. John Coate regards personnel
decisions as confidential matters and never discloses the reasons
in public, so we will probably never know exactly what led to that
decision.<br /><br />
I will say, however, that I personally was disappointed in Mr.
Brooksher's performance, and wrote to the GM to express my
concerns and my desire for improvement in the news broadcast.
Other listeners told me they were similarly disappointed. It did
not surprise me when he was not retained.<br /><br />
Dave is a nice guy and I think he might do much better as a
writer. I wish him all the best.<br /><br />
Tim<br /><br />
p.s. Christina, as you well know, was laid off because the station
could not afford two full-time news reporters. Even she admitted
at the time that it was the right thing to do.<br /><br /><br />
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