<html><body><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div>Marco,</div><div><br></div><div>Your communication style is so clear and direct. Only facts. Only facts presented in a well-crafted argument. Too bad, it's wasted on the likes of Tim Gregory. He's just a troll here of our listserv.</div><div><br></div><div>Better to take your remarks below, edit a bit and reformat as a letter, and submit to the UDJ and AVA.</div><div><br></div><div>Wonderful stuff.</div><div><br></div><div>John</div><div><br></div><hr id="zwchr"><div style="color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"><b>From: </b>"Marco McClean" <memo@mcn.org><br><b>To: </b>"kzyxtalk" <kzyxtalk@lists.mcn.org><br><b>Cc: </b>editor@theava.com, "MCPB Board" <BOD@kzyx.org>, discussion@lists.mcn.org<br><b>Sent: </b>Sunday, June 21, 2015 11:24:39 PM<br><b>Subject: </b>[Kzyxtalk] The board's, the management's and Tim Gregory's magic bubble.<br><div><br></div>><br>> Tim Gregory <tgregory@saber.net> wrote under the subject: Re: [Kzyxtalk] on dictators, goons, sycophants, stuffed shirts and cheerleaders, and cheering mobs:<br>><br>> "Too bad Norman...you see the tool John [Sakowicz] has has made of your efforts at discussion? Some folks never learn boundaries--the world is their magic bubble..."<br>> <br><div><br></div> Okay, Tim, think of it the other way around. Imagine reading a <br>speech-to-text output of all the pledge-drive talk from a single day of <br>a typical unlistenable KZYX pledge drive, about how the station needs <br>more and more money in memberships and donations just to keep the great <br>programs coming, and about how it's like a great big restaurant where <br>all the listeners eat for free and so are bound by honor to pay up, so <br>pay up, and so on, and then the fatuous chuckling, and praise of the <br>management and staff who do /so much/ under such /difficult conditions/...<br><div><br></div> Now try to hold this in the same mind: just the manager and program <br>director and ad (underwriting) salesman together suck $140,000 a year <br>out of the station --the equivalent of 2,800 yearly fifty-dollar <br>memberships --more members than KZYX ever had or will have.<br><div><br></div> Mary Aigner's position (program director) is entirely superfluous. <br>NPR and other syndicated shows switch in and out automatically. Deejays <br>show up and play their CDs and once per hour ID the station, and when <br>they don't show up automation covers for them. What do you suppose <br>Mary's directing but a sine wave graph of pledge drive activity, so she <br>can continue to be paid to pretend to be needed and to quite viciously <br>defend her turf and her undeserved authority over others.<br><div><br></div> David Steffen is paid more than whatever he imagines /he's/ winning <br>for the station in return for it. Naturally he's a snarling dog for the <br>status quo.<br><div><br></div> And all John Coate has accomplished in eight years: sucking out of <br>the station for himself /half a million dollars/, firing the news <br>department right off the bat and 7.6 years later starting a pretend new <br>one, occasionally telephoning an engineer to half-assedly patch things <br>together for him, faking up the occasional financial report, and adding <br>approximately one bell and two whistles to a web page.<br><div><br></div> The CPB grant has always paid twice-over all the real-life expenses <br>of running and maintaning KZYX. How can you not grasp, Tim, that you'd <br>still get to do your show if the disastrous expensive top-down hierarchy <br>were deposed, and-- maybe my show would be on KZYX too, and the shows of <br>others who over the years have run afoul of the bad humour of the /real/ <br>usurpers of the radio frequency, which is a natural resource, not a shoe <br>store. Three frequencies, in the case of MCPB. The money is there. <br>Airpersons can and should be paid for their work.<br><div><br></div> You say, "Too bad, Norman," but really, it's too bad for all of us. <br>You see the tool the "dictators, goons, sycophants, stuffed shirts and <br>cheerleaders" have made of our good faith and, for many of us, of our <br>lifelong efforts to provide a place for educational noncommercial <br>radiopeople to do audio art and science. Those dictators, goons, etc. <br>running the station have caused all their own troubles from within their <br>magic bubble of reactionary privilege --that's a good term, and an <br>accurate description, and they blame it all on others when anything <br>threatens that bubble. And /they/ get angry enough for their heads to <br>explode. We've all seen it.<br><div><br></div> This conversation should be taking place regularly on the air, and <br>in a forum on the KZYX web page, where boardmembers, and so-called <br>management, and airpeople --and the public, who pay for the station with <br>their taxes whether they like it or not-- can all participate equally, <br>in the light. It's crazy that Norman should have had to start this <br>listserv in the first place. KZYX should have been hosting an open <br>unmoderated forum on its webpage all along.<br><div><br></div> So John Sakowicz talks like an angry man. There are some real things <br>and creatures to be angry about at KZYX, and they've dug the hole <br>they're in, and they're still digging. I have trouble understanding why <br>you won't recognize this, Tim.<br><div><br></div><br>Marco McClean<br>memo@mcn.org<br>http://MemoOfTheAir.wordpress.com<br><div><br></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>Kzyxtalk mailing list<br>Kzyxtalk@lists.mcn.org<br>http://lists.mcn.org/mailman/listinfo/kzyxtalk<br></div><div><br></div></div></body></html>