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John Sakowicz wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Subject: Re: [Kzyxtalk] Three Radio Stations on Sourcewatch
To: kzyxtalk <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:kzyxtalk@lists.mcn.org"><kzyxtalk@lists.mcn.org></a>
What does this mean, Scott?
BTW, I owe you a call. I haven't forgotten your excellent work on the deficient KZYX audits during Coate's eight years. I hope that doesn't put the station's current management in jeopardy. I think Lorraine and Raoul want to do the right thing. -- John
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John, Marco here. If Lorraine and Raoul want to do the right thing,
why are they still sucking all the membership money out of KZYX and
into their own personal bank accounts? I hate to sound like a broken
record, but if Lorraine is getting $60K a year and Raoul $40K,
that's the equivalent of 2000 $50 yearly memberships, and that's
more paid memberships than MCPB even has. So when the airpeople, who
are not being paid at all, are dragooned --or bamboozled, rather--
into giving their airtime over to begging listeners for money "to
keep the great shows on the air", that's a big fat lie every time
they repeat it. None of that money is doing the station any good;
it's sliding though the station and out the other side like crap
through a goose.<br>
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All the paid-for syndicated shows don't add up to $30,000 as an
expense. The electricity for the transmitters and studios, and the
phone and internet bills and music publishers' fees and tower space
and studio rent and overhead and all the other expenses all put
together come to less than $100,000. In short, all along, the
station could easily have been entirely supported for less than a
fourth of the way more than half-a-million-dollars that get
processed in MCPB's mysterious bookkeeping system every year. Uncle
Sugar has already given MCPB four million dollars to date, in
six-month installments that so far have vanished as quickly as they
appeared because of crooked and/or stupid management by MCPB from
the beginning.<br>
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There's an old Chinese saying: "The best time to plant a tree is
twenty years ago. The second-best time is right now." The so-called
enlightened new regime can do the right thing right now. That would
be for Lorraine to fire freshly-hired "program director" Raoul
--he's got a lovely stereotypical avuncular FM radio voice and I'm
sure he does a competent job of inserting a jazz CD in a slot and
pressing /play/, but he's entirely unnecessary in the office; and
she can fire David Steffen --also a superfluous chair-filler-- and
take at least a 50% pay cut herself by offering to be paid by the
hour for hours actually worked for the station, and use the fountain
of money freed up to pay the airpeople for their shows and for prep
time, the way the NPR airpeople are all paid for their shows, the
way all the airpeople at KMFB were paid for our independently
produced shows by a manager doing a manager's job. And that's just
the most self-evidently obvious right thing on a long list of right
things to do, right up there with figuring out and exposing to
public view where all the rest of those millions and millions of
dollars went, because they didn't just vanish into a crack in the
time-space continuum, having never existed; they existed, and
someone took them. Someone is still taking them, and it can't hurt
the station to find out who they all were and are; it can only help.<br>
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Marco McClean
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