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Hi Marco,</div>
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It looks like the Mutual Admiration Society from Philo has fallen on hard times. Boohoo. Chris Skyhawk is the first rat to leave a sinking ship. LayZYX lived high on the hog for decades. All thanks to Uncle Sugar.</div>
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You're right about the epidemic of spinelessness there. It's nothing more than a left-handed version of MAGA. If CPB and NPR get the axe, so will Rich Culbertson and his ilk. Good riddance. What will Mendocino County's darling of public radio be without all
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Couldn't be any worse than it is now.</div>
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Best,</div>
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Scott M. Peterson</div>
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Mendocino</div>
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1. Fwd: [MCN-Announce]- Chris Skyhawk KZYX RESIGNATION letter<br>
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Date: Mon, 26 May 2025 22:42:57 -0700<br>
From: Marco McClean <memo@mcn.org><br>
To: kzyxtalk@lists.mcn.org<br>
Cc: themaj@pacific.net, pd@kzyx.org, gm@kzyx.org, bod@kzyx.org<br>
Subject: [Kzyxtalk] Fwd: [MCN-Announce]- Chris Skyhawk KZYX<br>
RESIGNATION letter<br>
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On 5/26/2025 4:48 PM, Chris Skyhawk wrote:<br>
> Hello KZYX members and community, this is Chris Skyhawk, I am writing <br>
to inform you of my decision to resign as a KZYX public affairs <br>
programmer, I am very disheartened with the direction the station is <br>
currently taking...<br>
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Marco here. Not letting good airpeople with interesting projects use <br>
KZYX for their show, and ignoring them, and kicking people out, and <br>
sabotaging them, and banning them for life simply for not quite being <br>
the right sort of people to suit the politburo of decisionmakers there <br>
did not start five minute ago, Chris. Everyone, you included, Rich C. <br>
included, who's been there for many years looked the other way whenever <br>
it happened, and those I spoke to all nervously said the same thing to <br>
explain their lack of solidarity: "I don't get involved in the office <br>
politics. I just want to do my show." And yez all got to keep doing your <br>
shows, because that was the test. Now you're oldish and tired, and you <br>
don't wanta do your show so much as you used to, you get up on your hind <br>
legs and cry /unfair/. I want to say it's never too late to do the right <br>
thing, but that's not true. Because nobody with any power at KZYX, in <br>
front of or behind the curtain, has ever done the right thing, it was <br>
too late right off the bat. But go ahead, roll another manager just like <br>
all sixteen or twenty previous managers, for something to do with your <br>
fingers. Why not.<br>
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A real manager would start by paying the airpeople, even if only a <br>
pittance, a /token/ of respect. And stop lying that the membership money <br>
goes to keep the great shows on the air, when in fact all the membership <br>
dollars go directly into the private bank accounts of two people in the <br>
office suite who are barely interested in doing radio themselves, and <br>
who are so unnecessary to the operation they could just decide not to <br>
come in one day and stay home in bed with their phone off for weeks <br>
before anybody noticed and asked where they were. That's one big <br>
difference between a worker and a so-called manager. If an airperson <br>
misses a single airdate by one minute, that's it. That shows who's <br>
needed and who's not, and who should be fricking paid.<br>
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The atmosphere. The fear and tense palpable angst in that place, <br>
whenever I went there. It was like walking into a wall. Can I get an <br>
out-loud amen from others who have felt that.<br>
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Marco McClean, memo@mcn.org, <a href="https://memooftheair.wordpress.com/">https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmemooftheair.wordpress.com%2F&data=05%7C02%7C%7C35cd46b8569f4cf3e2ca08dd9d50b49e%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C638839692175516942%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=IGR4RPpzcP4v6ChyjgKJszhhIr7ewICO4rGfh%2F82uOs%3D&reserved=0</a><br>
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