[Kzyxtalk] KZYX Board "Love Letter" to John Coate

[sako4 at comcast.net]

Dear KZYX Members for Change, 


I writing to let you know that the KZYX Board of Directors recently drafted a "love letter" to John Coate that will soon be posted to the KZYX website. It's absurd. I take it to be a vote of confidence in Coate, but it borders on obsequious -- it reads much like a tribute to Caesar. 


Eight of the nine members of the Board of Directors endorsed the letter. I was the sole dissenting vote. Regretfully, I can't cut and paste the letter and share it with you, because that would violate the Board's obsession with secrecy. 


I asked Board Chair Eliane Herring if the Board would allow me to post my dissent to the love letter -- much like the courts publish a dissenting opinion along with the majority opinion for court decisions in the court reporters -- but I never received an answer from Ms. Herring. 


No surprise. The Board does not recognize diversity of opinion, nor does it does value free speech. We've known that much four months ago when Coate canceled the station's only public forum forpublic comment "Open Lines", and indefinitely suspended the show's popular host, Doug McKenty. 


John 



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