<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'>Although I have no proof of this at this time, I'm willing to bet Coate has sabotaged Christina Aanestad's job search by either failing to provide a reference or providing a negative reference. And why all this recrimination? Why? Because Christina wanted to do an in-depth piece killer piece on the Emerald Cup? Because she wanted to do serious investigative journalism, like looking into the two deputy suicides in the MCSO North Sector?<div><br></div><div>Concerning Christina's job performance as a new anchor at KMUD -- first-rate all the way. Totally. I now get my Humboldt-Mendocino news by listening to the KMUD webstream.<br><br><hr id="zwchr"><b>From: </b>nsi@mcn.org<br><b>To: </b>kzyxtalk@lists.mcn.org<br><b>Sent: </b>Thursday, February 13, 2014 3:57:52 PM<br><b>Subject: </b>[Kzyxtalk] Fwd: Re: [MCN-Discussion]- David Brooksher<br><br><br><br><br>
----- 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" target="_blank">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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