[Kzyxtalk] Dead List

[David]

So some on this list serve wish to keep it going, as in "We need to
encourage the Board & Mgmt to Listen to the membership".

 

Which members? This list is a very small collection (certainly not a
verifiable sample or cross-section, and not all are members) of listeners,
of people who advocate for "their way or the highway". There are many other
members not on this list serve who don't agree with them. That's been plain
as day to anyone who's attended recent board meetings and heard rational,
thoughtful people express support for what is being done here, countering
the emotional dribble coming from the "change at all costs" few. Thankfully
some rational people also offer their perspective on this list from time to
time. But it's become obvious that the majority of the usual suspects on
this list are a group existing in a bubble of their own creation. 

 

They've insisted that we must change. Let me state unequivocally: it is they
who must change. Let me be more direct. If you don't like the successful
turn-around this business known as KZYX has made during the past 5 years,
feel free to advocate for chaos but don't tell us that we must return to the
mismanagement of the past. Better yet leave us. Maybe it's time for you to
go away and support only the stations you hold up as paragons of virtuous
public radio and let us spend time growing this station instead of
responding to scurrilous remarks.

 

Where were these geniuses when the station was digging itself into debt?
Where were their voices when maintenance was deferred? Where were they when
the roof began leaking? Where were these true-believers when sound
verifiable bookkeeping, audits, and sound business practices were ignored?
Some of the loudest voices now were board members, employees, or programmers
back then. But they've forgotten the past. They've forgotten their
contribution to the chaos, chaos that was not a creation of the current GM
or others here right now. 

 

The sinking ship we have been righting for the past 5-6 years was a creation
of the sheer neglect by many of the same people calling for change now. Some
of those people have made accusations, repeated on this list-serve and
sometimes published in local print publications without ever responding
directly when called out about their name-calling, lies, innuendos, and
mischaracterizations. I've been the subject of some of this name-calling and
even when refuted by me personally or by others who know the truth, the name
calling continues. 

 

When Norman asks whether the list should continue, I feel obliged to ask,
"why the question now" Norman? Where was the question when vitriol and
spurious remarks were offered by Sakowicz or McKenty or Christina, etc., as
part of regular attacks on John Coate, or Mary, or me, or others? Those
attacks didn't seem to raise an eyebrow then, but when anyone counters the
apparent dishonest nature of Mr. Sakowicz we suddenly need to rethink the
continuation of this list-serve?  Perhaps that wasn't Norman's intention
when he raised the question but the timing is curious.

 

Keep this listserve or get rid of it. I really don't care. But while it
exists I will not sit idly by and allow people to attack any one of us. And
I expect that at some point, others who read so much of this garbage will
call the authors out as well.

 

David

 

 

David Steffen

KZYX Business Development

(707) 895-2324 office

(707) 322-9895 cell

(707) 895-2451 fax

 

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On Behalf Of rusert at mcn.org
Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2014 10:12 AM
To: Kzyxtalk at lists.mcn.org
Subject: [Kzyxtalk] Dead List

 



Norman - this is the time when the KZYX list will be the MOST important. We
need to encourage the Board & Mgmt to Listen to the membership. 

Thanks, Brent Rusert

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