<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:16px">Please support public radio, be it KZYX, KNYO, KMEC, or others. If you can only support one, then donate to a different one each year. And if you want to vote with your wallet, just wait till the pledge drive is over, then join. That will show up in the stats and may be the best way to show that you want essential changes in policy.<br><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1424221656489_5226"><br><span></span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1424221656489_5227"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1424221656489_5950">Public radio is a noble experiment, an effort to create a vehicle for our collective consciousness, for the good of humanity. I believe that current policies at MCPB/KZYX are discouraging that, and have submitted proposals for essential change. Alas, it is too late to join now and vote in this election; that deadline was December 31. So it won't matter if you wait till after the pledge drive to join. But don't throw out the baby with the bathwater. All the worst is going to come out during a period of opposition. But hopefully all the best can rise up afterwards, as we chart a new course that nourishes freedom of expression, opens up governance, and fully engages the station with the members and the public.<br></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1424221656489_5903" dir="ltr"><br><span></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1424221656489_5902" dir="ltr"><span>Thanks,</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1424221656489_5901" dir="ltr"><span>Denny</span></div><br> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1424221656489_5253" style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1424221656489_5252" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1424221656489_5251" dir="ltr"> <hr id="yui_3_16_0_1_1424221656489_5254" size="1"> <font id="yui_3_16_0_1_1424221656489_6341" size="2" face="Arial"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> "kzyxtalk-request@lists.mcn.org" <kzyxtalk-request@lists.mcn.org><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> kzyxtalk@lists.mcn.org <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Tuesday, February 17, 2015 12:00 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Kzyxtalk Digest, Vol 13, Issue 41<br> </font> </div> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1424221656489_5255" class="y_msg_container"><br>Send Kzyxtalk mailing list submissions to<br> <a ymailto="mailto:kzyxtalk@lists.mcn.org" href="mailto:kzyxtalk@lists.mcn.org">kzyxtalk@lists.mcn.org</a><br><br>To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit<br> <a href="http://lists.mcn.org/mailman/listinfo/kzyxtalk" target="_blank">http://lists.mcn.org/mailman/listinfo/kzyxtalk</a><br>or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to<br> <a ymailto="mailto:kzyxtalk-request@lists.mcn.org" href="mailto:kzyxtalk-request@lists.mcn.org">kzyxtalk-request@lists.mcn.org</a><br><br>You can reach the person managing the list at<br> <a ymailto="mailto:kzyxtalk-owner@lists.mcn.org" href="mailto:kzyxtalk-owner@lists.mcn.org">kzyxtalk-owner@lists.mcn.org</a><br><br>When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific<br>than "Re: Contents of Kzyxtalk digest..."<br><br><br>Today's Topics:<br><br> 1. Re: The crux of the biscuit. (Tim Gregory)<br><br><br>----------------------------------------------------------------------<br><br>Message: 1<br>Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2015 10:12:21 -0800<br>From: "Tim Gregory" <<a ymailto="mailto:tgregory@saber.net" href="mailto:tgregory@saber.net">tgregory@saber.net</a>><br>Subject: Re: [Kzyxtalk] The crux of the biscuit.<br>To: <a ymailto="mailto:kzyxtalk@lists.mcn.org" href="mailto:kzyxtalk@lists.mcn.org">kzyxtalk@lists.mcn.org</a><br>Message-ID:<br> <<a ymailto="mailto:51ec793da50a40226607734e755e9a8b.squirrel@webmail.saber.net" href="mailto:51ec793da50a40226607734e755e9a8b.squirrel@webmail.saber.net">51ec793da50a40226607734e755e9a8b.squirrel@webmail.saber.net</a>><br>Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1<br><br>mm wrote:<br><br>--'So I say this time wait to pledge money, until something changes. How is that<br>threatening to you?'<br><br>not to me, marco, i'm just disappointed. you don't bother to connect the dots<br>between now, and your ideal. cutting off the head, to save the body is not good<br>prognosis to me.<br><br><br>--'And of course I'm going to say it during pledge<br>week. When else would it make more sense to say it?'<br><br>it will make more sense to us as analysis/future planning when you are not<br>monkey-wrenching at the same time.<br><br>mm, you more than most understand team play in radio [even if you do have a whole<br>station in your suitcase]. but your 'love of radio' has obvious qualifications and<br>DISqualifications at this point.<br><br>so i ask you in return, aside from therapy--what GOOD will come of giving your<br>anecdotal experience to legitimizing sako's legal and verbal assault on mcpb? [Doug,<br>same question.] do either of you think sako would win another term if he were<br>running this time?<br><br>the 'starve-the-budget' tactic is very Republican to me. sandbagging,<br>sabotage...whatever you want to call it, it's neither loving nor helpful.<br>---<br><br><br>(K.C. Meadows, I?m sorry. I?m trying, but despite all my newspaper and radio<br>experience I?ve never been much of a traditional editor. The more time I spend on<br>cutting things like this, the longer it gets, and then I start over, and then I look<br>up and it?s three in the morning and I haven?t started my real work. I have to stop<br>now.)<br><br>(Here, if you can use this, use it. If you can?t, don?t. It won?t make me mad; I<br>know you have space constraints.)<br><br>The Crux of the Biscuit<br>--by Marco McClean<br><br>An open letter to the agitated KZYX people who clearly misunderstood what I wrote<br>about thinking it over before pledging money:<br><br>Read MCPB's financial statement. In 2014 KZYX' managers were paid in total over<br>$180,000. That's 3,600 $50 yearly memberships, when you only have 2,300 members.<br>It's as if the managers are taking the money out of all the pledge envelopes and<br>stuffing it in their own pockets, and then some. What am I saying? It?s not /as if/,<br>that?s exactly what?s happening.<br><br>Radio is cheap. It costs surprisingly little to run a radio station. CPB grants paid<br>$190,000 to MCPB in 2014; that's plenty to never need a pledge drive. And it is dead<br>easy to make radio that?s smarter and better than commercial stations; it doesn?t<br>require an all-powerful master deciding who enters and who stays and who goes-- and<br>continuing to kowtow to these masters because you're afraid to lose your show is<br>pathetic. And before you tell me /you're/ not afraid to lose /your/ airtime, try<br>bringing this matter up on the air on KZYX and see what happens. Try recounting on<br>your show any conversation you've ever had with anyone in the KZYX office. Try being<br>exactly who you are, on the air, and not cramping your style down because of how<br>Mary Aigner might view what you say and do, and see what happens.<br><br>And ?the members control the station? is a lie. I was talking with Doug McKenty last<br>week; he told me about arguments he had with Stuart<br>Campbell, where Stuart said, "Members do /too/ control the station. They elect the<br>board." But then the board transfers complete control to John Coate and Mary Aigner,<br>neither of whom pay the slightest attention to what station members might have to<br>say. And when you write to the board, using the form on the website, they don't even<br>receive it. It doesn't get to them; and they don't care. They /like/ being as<br>insulated from the members as they are from the general public.<br><br>Just for comparison, KNYO-LP in Fort Bragg has microphones, mixers, music players, a<br>broadcast booth with a microwave oven and a bathroom, an STL link of sorts, remote<br>studios, a transmitter, and even a<br>storefront performance space downtown. The only operating difference between KNYO<br>and KZYX is in maximum allowed transmitter power. KNYO?s manager?s real tasks are<br>the same as the combined real tasks of all the managers of KZYX, but he?s paid<br>nothing; he does it because he loves radio. Anyone who wants to do a show on KNYO<br>can do it. When problems crop up they get solved. KNYO doesn?t get any tax grant<br>money; every donated dollar goes to run the station. And radio is a thing that<br>anyone can do if he isn't prevented from it by oppressive gatekeepers like the<br>managers of KZYX. You don?t have to go to school for it; you just have to have a<br>radio hero or two to emulate until your own style emerges. Or even just have an<br>idea.<br><br>Everyone who has a show on KZYX would still have his or her show if the managers who<br>insist on being paid like kings all went away, which is what I suspect they?d do if<br>their salaries were yanked, because they?re not in it for radio. People who are in<br>it for radio would replace them. That would be an improvement.<br><br>Without the people on top sucking all membership money and underwriting money out of<br>the system, just the federal grant money would easily maintain KZYX, because that?s<br>what it?s doing now, and what it?s been doing for 25 years of this.<br><br>So I say this time wait to pledge money, until something changes. How is that<br>threatening to you? And of course I'm going to say it during pledge week. When else<br>would it make more sense to say it?<br><br>Marco McClean, Albion<br><a ymailto="mailto:memo@mcn.org" href="mailto:memo@mcn.org">memo@mcn.org</a><br><a href="http://memooftheair.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">http://MemoOfTheAir.wordpress.com</a><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Kzyxtalk mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:Kzyxtalk@lists.mcn.org" href="mailto:Kzyxtalk@lists.mcn.org">Kzyxtalk@lists.mcn.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.mcn.org/mailman/listinfo/kzyxtalk" target="_blank">http://lists.mcn.org/mailman/listinfo/kzyxtalk</a><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>------------------------------<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Kzyxtalk mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:Kzyxtalk@lists.mcn.org" href="mailto:Kzyxtalk@lists.mcn.org">Kzyxtalk@lists.mcn.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.mcn.org/mailman/listinfo/kzyxtalk" target="_blank">http://lists.mcn.org/mailman/listinfo/kzyxtalk</a><br><br><br>End of Kzyxtalk Digest, Vol 13, Issue 41<br>****************************************<br><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div></body></html>