<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'><br>Cannabis is indeed a forbidden topic at the station.<div><br></div><div><br><hr id="zwchr"><b>From: </b>"Patricia Kovner" <pkovner@yahoo.com><br><b>To: </b>tbray@wildblue.net, kzyxtalk@lists.mcn.org<br><b>Sent: </b>Saturday, February 22, 2014 8:41:13 AM<br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [Kzyxtalk] Replacing Media Matters<br><br>Doug makes such good points. From what I gather, cannabis is a forbidden topic at the station, and I wonder why, especially with the breakthroughs in CBD development, spearheaded by people in our area. Does management even know the difference between medical and recreational?<br>--------------------------------------------<br>On Fri, 2/21/14, doug mckenty <dougmck@gmail.com> wrote:<br><br> Subject: Re: [Kzyxtalk] Replacing Media Matters<br> To: "tbray@wildblue.net" <tbray@wildblue.net>, "kzyxtalk@lists.mcn.org" <kzyxtalk@lists.mcn.org><br> Date: Friday, February 21, 2014, 10:38 PM<br> <br> Tim,<br> I often find it strange when I hear the words<br> coming out of the mouths of those who advocate for current<br> station policy that have often come out of my own mouth when<br> advocating for change. With all due respect, who is trying<br> to force their views on anyone? Coate is a lefty<br> politically, but he has chosen to program KZYX to cater to<br> the center left and those who adhere to a worldview that is<br> portrayed by NPR. He has taken a conservative tact<br> believing it to be the right course of action in steering<br> KZYX to financial stability. I believe he has made a<br> mistake by excluding all those who are not center left,<br> which surveys show to be at least half the population.<br> <br> <br> All of those advocating for change are looking<br> for a station that reflects the diversity of our<br> community.<br> I also believe Coate's management style to be<br> conservative when he attempts to control the local news to<br> the point of reducing it to next to nothing and eliminating<br> all controversial topics. I feel it is also conservative<br> to eliminate community input by ignoring, then suspending<br> Open Lines, or placing barriers in the way of board members<br> trying to establish a board access program or not helping<br> facilitate the CAB or not implementing the PAC. <br> <br> I would also call it conservative for Coate to<br> instruct local programmers to cover local news rather than<br> produce local news programs himself. Local programmers<br> should be treated as independant contractors. If their<br> program description is approved by the PAC then management<br> has no right to interfere with their production. I feel<br> this attempted control to be just plain rude. <br> <br> When I have brought these thing up, nothing is<br> done. Jeff Blankfort's show and Corporations and<br> Democracy are used as the example that the far left should<br> be satisfied and the rest of us are just a "small but<br> vocal minority." What about a conspiracy theory show<br> or a libertarian show or a Native American show or a<br> communist show or a Green Party show or a .....(fill in the<br> blank). I don't believe that advocating for diversity<br> in programming and freedom of speech for all members of our<br> community, including minority voices, is extremist. I<br> believe that is what public radio should be all about.<br> <br> <br> How is current programming helping anybody<br> understand the issues from all sides?<br> I cannot agree with you more than when you say no<br> one has a monopoly on truth. That includes station staff.<br> This is why I advocate for the implementation of the<br> Program Advisory Committee designed to create a group of<br> people from a cross section of our community working<br> together making programming choices with consensus. <br> <br> Doug Mckenty<br> <br> <br> On Friday, February 21, 2014, Tim Bray <tbray@wildblue.net><br> wrote:<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> John Coate is on the extreme right, in<br> exactly the same way that Barack Obama is on the<br> extreme left: it<br> only looks that way if you are an extremist yourself.<br> <br> <br> <br> It would be funny, if it weren't so tragic. This<br> divisive and<br> personal campaign against station staff is reducing<br> the<br> opportunities for real change, and making enemies of<br> people who<br> should be making common cause.<br> <br> <br> <br> John is a lefty himself, but he believes public radio<br> should help<br> people understand issues from all sides, educating and<br> informing<br> so people can make rational decisions, rather than<br> simply<br> reflecting their beliefs back to them. For this, he<br> is castigated<br> as a traitor to "the cause" by those who<br> want this station to echo<br> their own political agendas. He is also maybe a<br> little more<br> humble about his beliefs than those of you who seek to<br> force their<br> views on everyone else.<br> <br> <br> <br> We have a really diverse community in this County, and<br> we should<br> have a diversity of views presented on our community<br> radio<br> station. Nobody has a monopoly on Truth.<br> <br> <br> <br> Tim Bray<br> <br> Albion<br> <br> <br> <br> On 2/20/2014 2:06 PM, she-la wrote:<br> <br> <br> <br> Karen, <br> The simplest answer is that, from John Coate's<br> perspective, the stations news programs were one sided,<br> leaning toward leftist philosophy.<br> Since he, along with Mary was making the programming<br> decisions it didn't matter what any of the members or<br> listeners thought. This is one of the main difficulties with<br> the station--the lack of inclusion of the public base. It is<br> also the main reason why 1/5 of KZYX membership numbers<br> (423) now donate to KMUD while only 44 people in Humboldt<br> County donate to KZYX. The station ignores these statistics<br> by having more pledge drives to bolster its membership<br> numbers and make it appear as if a boycott of the station<br> by dissatisfied listeners is not occurring.<br> Of course, from where Coate stands on the extreme right,<br> everything is left of his views.<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> -- <br> <br> Oak & Thorn<br> <br> Facebook: Oak and Thorn<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> -----Inline Attachment Follows-----<br> <br> _______________________________________________<br> Kzyxtalk mailing list<br> Kzyxtalk@lists.mcn.org<br> http://lists.mcn.org/mailman/listinfo/kzyxtalk<br> <br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Kzyxtalk mailing list<br>Kzyxtalk@lists.mcn.org<br>http://lists.mcn.org/mailman/listinfo/kzyxtalk<br></div></div></body></html>