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[sako4 at comcast.net]

KZYX Board Writes Love Letter to John Coate 




To the Editor: 









I writing to let you know that the KZYX Board of Directors recently drafted a "love letter" to KZYX General Manager, John Coate. It will soon be posted to the KZYX website. The letter is absurd, especially in light of the fact that KZYX is facing five or more challenges to the renewal of their FCC licenses. 


I take the love letter to be a vote of confidence in Coate, but it borders on the obsequious. Perhaps it is a belated Valentine's Day note. 


Maybe. It reads much more like a tribute to Caesar. 


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


I asked Board Chair Eliane Herring if the Board would allow me to post a short dissent to the love letter -- much like the courts publish a dissenting opinion alongside majority and concurring opinions for important court decisions in the court reporter -- but I never received an answer from Ms. Herring. 


Silence. No answer. 


No surprise. The Board, would seem not to want to air any diversity of opinion with respect to poor management decisions at the station, nor does it seem to value free speech. We've known that much four months ago when Coate canceled the station's only public forum for public comment "Open Lines", and indefinitely suspended the show's popular host, Doug McKenty -- the Board was silent then, too. 


John Sakowicz 
Ukiah 



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