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----- Original Message -----<br /><div class="replyForwardedMainHeader"><div class="replyForwardedMessageHeaders">From:</div> "" <nsi@mcn.org></div><br /><div class="replyForwardedMessageHeaders">To:</div> Tim Bray <tbray@wildblue.net><br /><div class="replyForwardedMessageHeaders">Cc:</div> discussion@lists.mcn.org<br /><div class="replyForwardedMessageHeaders">Sent:</div> Thu, 13 Feb 2014 14:02:28 -0800<br /><div class="replyForwardedMessageHeaders">Subject:</div> Re: [MCN-Discussion]- [Kzyxtalk] David Brooksher<br /><br />
Folks: I suggest you all go to the KMUD archives and listen to the 1/2<br />
hour news coordinated by Christina Aanestad on Wednesday February 12.<br />
Most especially you Tim. <br />
It is representative of the possibilities John Coate threw away:<br />
Exquisite sequencing, well trained community corresspondents, a daily<br />
spectrum of Mendocino and Humboldt County news. <br /><br />
The email you referenced on the Programmers listserv, TIm (sent when? 2<br />
years ago), was posted by Christina while she still believed John<br />
Coate when he told her his intentions were to hire her back once the<br />
stations finances were improved.<br />
Coate by the way turned down a $4000 (and growing) pledged amount of<br />
money collected on the coast by Meredith Smith in a matter of two<br />
weeks to specifically continue Christina's employment in the new<br />
department.<br />
Such targeted monies have been accepted by the station before. <br />
Coate turned that down! He wanted to be entirely rid of Christina,<br />
but hadn't made that clear to her because he did not want her to go<br />
public (and possibly to court) with the harassment she had suffered<br />
from David Steffen and Paul Hansen. Harassment about which she had JUST<br />
made a formal complaint to Coate. <br />
Paul Hansen. Remember him. He flees the station roster right after<br />
the AVA learns and publishes that Hansen was involved in some<br />
sort of grift operation at the last station he worked for. And<br />
indicted for. An indictment he had not disclosed on his resume.<br />
Immediately after Paul's departure from KZYX, Christina applied for<br />
the position of News Director. And Coate responds with a terse<br />
content-based turn-down. . . . Then, casually disses her to Doug<br />
McKenty. <br />
Upon first learning (for the first time last month) that her<br />
professional reputation was being openly besmirched by John Coate,<br />
Christina sent an email to Doug expressing her outrage, and includes<br />
a copy of Coate's curt dismissal for all to see for themselves and<br />
judge. (She gave us both permission to post it on the discussion<br />
listserv, which I did. )<br />
This goes on and on. And if you want more, I'll do David Steffen<br />
next.<br />
Tim! Just listen to that newscast so you understand the extent of<br />
Coate's terrible, terrible judgement. <br />
"Management"! Is that what you think this is. . . . More like<br />
living in a Failed State. --beth bosk <br /><br />
----- Original Message -----<br />
From: "Tim Bray" <br />
To:<br />
Cc:<br />
Sent:Thu, 13 Feb 2014 11:17:22 -0800<br />
Subject:Re: [Kzyxtalk] David Brooksher<br /><br />
In response to Beth's request, I went back and looked at the e-mail <br />
Christina sent to the Programmers list. I don't think it will<br />
violate <br />
any confidence or privacy to share the relevant line to which I<br />
referred <br />
earlier:<br />
"I was laid off not fired. John has done right the right thing in<br />
this <br />
process." [sic]<br /><br />
I wasn't her biggest fan, but she displayed some class in that<br />
period. <br />
That particular e-mail laid out a number of ideas for how KZYX might<br /><br />
survive the financial crisis it was facing, and prosper in the<br />
future; <br />
and several of those have since been followed up by the Board and <br />
management. She did fault the Board for not doing more fundraising, <br />
programmers for not making a clear enough case to listeners for <br />
contributions, and management for not embracing more of her ideas <br />
There was some justification for all of that.<br /><br />
So there's your reality check; and it was Sako who threw her name<br />
around <br />
here.<br /><br />
As for Brooksher, he tried to develop a team of local correspondents<br /><br />
here. I remember a Programmers Meeting when he made exactly that<br />
pitch, <br />
explaining how easy it was to do and that he would train anyone who<br />
was <br />
interested, etc. He got a couple of people to do it - like Louis <br />
Bigfoot - but not enough to make it work. That wasn't management's <br />
fault, or even Dave's, but ours as a community. After Dave left,<br />
John <br />
asked the programmers to pick up some of the slack by covering more<br />
of <br />
the local events and affairs on their shows, and I think some have<br />
done <br />
so. It's too bad they don't seem to be getting any recognition for <br />
that; all anyone wants to talk about is the lack of a half-hour<br />
local <br />
news program.<br /><br />
I may be out of my league, but I am not manufacturing information<br />
(that <br />
might be John S. you're thinking of) and if I am deaf, it is not <br />
intentional. KZYX is far from perfect and I have long been critical<br />
of <br />
many aspects. I think it has improved in many ways since I started <br />
listening; perhaps your opinion differs Since it is a matter of <br />
opinion, neither of us has to be wrong.<br /><br />
Sincerely,<br />
Tim Bray<br /><br />
On 2/11/2014 8:53 PM, <a href="mailto:nsi@mcn.org">nsi@mcn.org</a> [1] wrote:<br />
> This is crap Tim. John Coate didn't "lay off" Christina. That's<br />
just how he couched it when he promised her she'd be rehired as soon as<br />
the finances improved.<br />
> What he really did, was take the first step towards shutting down<br />
the News Department as an independent entity; an entity with the contractual right to negotiate its budget. And which had control<br />
over the content.<br />
> I'm not even sure now that cancelling the news department and <br />
> replacing it with 5 minutes of press releases and recitation from<br />
the <br />
> Press Democrat was really within his purview. And if so, what a <br />
> mistake. Where was the Board oversight?<br />
> David Brooksher was canned because he resisted Coate's<br />
interference in <br />
> his news gathering, which began to be an appropriately focused <br />
> attention on the struggle over the extension of the Marine<br />
Sanctuary <br />
> zones in our region.<br />
> What David did at KMUD was put together and train a team of local <br />
> correspondents. In other words: Bush Radio.<br />
> --Which is what Christina wanted to do at KZYX/Z. Mary Aigner, in<br />
all the years she has been there, has yet to recruit and train a<br />
bilingual public affairs team And has done nothing to replace the local <br />
programming we once aired re. Native American culture and issues.<br />
You are out of your league here and either manufacturing information<br />
or intentionally deaf to what went on. And continues.<br />
> As a first step: you need to do a reality check with Christina<br />
before you throw her name around. --beth bosk<br /><br />
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