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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'>better yet -- OPEN YOUR EYES, BOARDMEMBERS .. <div><br><div><br></div><div>remember MCTV? .. </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.advocate-news.com/article/ZZ/20130725/NEWS/130729425" target="_blank">http://www.advocate-news.com/article/ZZ/20130725/NEWS/130729425</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>they had their own Stuart Campbell .. a CEO who assured trusting board members that all was well .. </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>well, it wasn't .. that was Elizabeth Swenson .. check her resume out:</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/elizabeth-swenson-1830081a" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/in/elizabeth-swenson-1830081a</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>see anything missing? .. like -- say -- experience? .. </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>now for Stuart Campbell's resume:</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://considerthis.us/?page_id=5" target="_blank">http://considerthis.us/?page_id=5</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>pretty impressive, huh? .. </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>the boardmembers at MCTV had to dig deep into their own pockets for that hiccup .. thousands of dollars apiece .. </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>plus attorney fees .. so keep on whistling past the graveyard, folks .. your time is fast approaching .. </div><div><br></div><div><div><br></div><div>- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - </div><div><br></div><div><pre style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Participate, boardmember. Be a person.
To the board of MCPB (KZYX):
When I said that you're using the same consistently idiotic management
model, I meant that everything at KZYX has been and is constructed to
limit freedom and creativity. You start out from a standpoint that
people are /not/ free in every area of their show, until a single aspect
of one of these restrictions catches the public's attention and of
course you get a flood of complaints, and then you reluctantly allow a
little freedom in that narrow case, say, /See? Look how free everything
is! And give us a chance! And give us a break! And shame on people for
making a fuss! We've only been here for two months! (Then six months,
then six years, and so on.)/ and then you shuffle backward into the
shadows again. It's not one step forward, one step back; it's never even
a single full step forward. So nothing can change for the better. And
that's what I meant by saying you've just put a friendlier-seeming color
of paint over your systemic problems, not improved things, not
progressed. It's what you've been doing and not doing since 1989.
Here's something that's never talked about: Whose show it is? When a
local person does a show on KZYX, he's denied the freedom to speak his
opinions. And you justify that by saying that the airperson is
representing KZYX, and you (suddenly, inexplicably) want to be (falsely)
fair. But when a person whose show you're paying for, someone far away
--say, Amy Goodman-- expresses an opinion or presents an entire hour of
only one side of an issue, that's fine with you, because that's
her/their show. Why is one situation grounds for losing or restricting
or threatening the show and the other just fine with you?
I've heard airperson after airperson on KZYX down through the years
nervously stutter on the air about how he's not supposed to, or can't,
weigh in on this or that issue that comes up, and that's what I'm
talking about. That's what the /chilling effect on freedom of speech/ means.
My show is my show, no matter what radio station runs it. Two are
running it now, soon a third one. And when my show, which addresses all
sides of hundreds of nuanced issues each time --and has done since
February of 1997-- is on KZYX I won't stand for any unconstitutional
interference in what I and writers and callers express. Because this is
still America, despite its being encumbered by organizations of people
like you.
And I'm still waiting for any response at all from your so-called
program director to my weeks and weeks of emails to <a href="http://lists.mcn.org/mailman/listinfo/kzyxtalk">pd at kzyx.org</a>, the
address he said over and over on the air to use, as his own is somehow a
secret (as was the process of hiring him, and hiring Lorraine, for that
matter) as I'm also waiting for any substantial response from the
individual boardmembers I was told by Meg that I'm writing to when I use
this one-way web widget buried deep in your byzantine website. How can
anyone trust that you're considering the concerns of writers when it
just vanishes into a black hole from which no information emerges? And
how is adding a layer of committees entirely chosen by you to run
interference on information to and from you going to help?
Each of you MCPB boardmembers should participate daily as individuals in
a forum open to everyone. If you won't put the forum on your webpage
--and Meg Courtney has written (privately to people who angered her by
sharing it) that you will never do that because, she says, "It would be
a free for all," then at least subscribe to <a href="http://lists.mcn.org/mailman/listinfo/kzyxtalk">kzyxtalk at lists.mcn.org</a> and
participate daily in the harmless but at least public free-for-all
there. At least you would be leaning forward, you know, preparing to step.
Again, if you don't feel like engaging the public in any timely way on
the subject of a public radio station, what business do you have
squatting on the board of a public radio station? If you want board
elections in future to seem free and open and trustworthy, as the ones
so far have not been, you have to do more than just read aloud, on a
single show before the board election, your half-page happyface campaign
statements about transparency and caring about radio and how much you
like jazz.
--
Marco McClean
<a href="http://lists.mcn.org/mailman/listinfo/kzyxtalk">memo at mcn.org</a>
<a href="http://memooftheair.wordpress/">http://MemoOfTheAir.wordpress</a>
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