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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Doug - It seems to me that you are
attempting to force your views about station management and
programming on everyone, as you are campaigning for the removal of
John Coate and Mary Aigner. You want KZYX to feature more of what
I would call extremist and fringe views, as long as they are not
"conservative" (whatever you mean by that, it's one of those words
whose meanings have gotten quite muddled nowadays; you seem to be
using it as an epithet). <br>
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Please be sure to also list the shows that you would remove in
order to make room in the schedule for these new programs you
advocate. Do you still advocate dropping all NPR programs? That
would be forcing your views on a pretty large segment of our
membership.<br>
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Part of our problem here is that everybody uses the word
"community" but hardly anybody agrees on what that means. I'm as
guilty as anyone else. We do have an unusually diverse community,
and parts of it are directly opposed to other parts, so it is
impossible to please everyone. KZYX public affairs programming
ranges generally from center-left to far-left, which probably does
encompass most of our likely listening audience. I do know some
in the center and right who listen to public radio. About the
only thing we offer those people is music. Are they part of our
community? <br>
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The PAC is a great idea, and I hope it can be revived and work
better the second time around. Based on what I saw and heard at a
PAC meeting I attended when it was in existence, there were some
dedicated people who worked very hard, but personality conflicts
and differing views on the nature and purpose of the Committee
crippled its ability to achieve anything. If it is reconstituted
as a body to oppose or overrule the Program Director, then it will
be doomed again; such conflict will not achieve positive change.
How are we to constitute a committee that will represent the
diversity of our community, and yet be able to compromise with
each other on program choices? As much as I would love to see it
happen, I think that is a very difficult thing to do here. Are we
really any better at "consensus" than, say, Congress? <br>
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Tim Bray<br>
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On 2/21/2014 10:38 PM, doug mckenty wrote:<br>
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type="cite">Tim,
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<div>I often find it strange when I hear the words coming out of
the mouths of those who advocate for current station policy that
have often come out of my own mouth when advocating for change.
With all due respect, who is trying to force their views on
anyone? <br>
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