[Kzyxtalk] Tim-your message lost

Fri May 16 21:46:03 PDT 2014

Hmm. I did not receive it in my email account. And as you can see from my last post, it was reported to be an html doc that was scrubbed.

When I click on the notice (that the html was scrubbed, I get the following which is decisperable, but evidently not what you see. --king

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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">This is a valid point.&nbsp; There has been
      some replacement; my research indicates a net shift from local to
      syndicated of 5.5 hours/week of public-affairs programming and 4
      hrs/wk of music programming since 2009.&nbsp;&nbsp; I don't think this was a
      management goal, so much as a series of ad-hoc decisions when
      situations arose.&nbsp; Diane is undoubtedly correct that it has much
      to do with the relative burden on staff of syndicated vs. local
      production.<br>
      <br>
      Training and supervision of programmers - old and new - is
      something I have been requesting more of for years.&nbsp; We got some
      excellent pledge-drive training back in 2007, which made an
      immediate and noticeable improvement.&nbsp; Vance Crowe and I held some
      workshops the following year, but since then we've had the
      financial crisis and lost 4 full-time staff members, so programmer
      training (which takes a lot of time and effort) hasn't been a
      priority.&nbsp; Rich has been training people when new equipment is
      installed and whenever individuals have specific questions, but
      it's a huge burden on him to try to improve the skills of 100+
      programmers while keeping the equipment operating.&nbsp; Mary seems to
      have her hands full just managing all those people and plugging
      holes in the schedule when someone takes a vacation.<br>
      <br>
      I think it would be helpful for anyone who shares Diane's concerns
      about local vs. syndication, and the value of training
      programmers, to write letters expressing their concerns to station
      management and the Board.&nbsp; It would be especially helpful if this
      were done in a non-confrontational way, without accusing staff of
      malfeasance etc.&nbsp; Simply make known your desire for more local
      programming and better training for programmers.<br>
      <br>
      This is the kind of change I am wholeheartedly in favor of:
      improving the quality of our product, especially of the parts we
      produce locally.&nbsp; It's not easily done, in part because people get
      pricklish when you ask them to improve - they often take that to
      mean you think they aren't quite good enough already.&nbsp; Some
      programmers have no desire to improve or do anything differently
      than they are already doing.&nbsp; Change is always resisted.&nbsp; <br>
      <br>
      It's also quite difficult to find and develop talented local
      programmers who will make the commitment to a regular radio
      shift.&nbsp; In that regard, I think it is remarkable that we have so
      many, given our population and demographics.&nbsp; From conversations
      with station staff, I can say they are always looking for new
      programmers and are frustrated by how difficult the search is.&nbsp; <br>
      <br>
      All the best,<br>
      Tim<br>
      -- <br>
      <a href="http://oakandthorn.wordpress.com">Oak &amp; Thorn</a><br>
      Facebook: Oak and Thorn<br>
      <br>
      On 5/16/2014 5:48 PM, Diane Paget wrote:<br>
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      <pre wrap="">I would rather address the larger problem of the replacement of local 
programming (due both to censorship and to the fact that it is easier to 
slip a CD into the machine than to train and supervise new programmers) 
with national programming and the deterioration of the quality of what I 
can hear on KZYX.

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On May 16, 2014, at 9:26 PM, Diane Paget wrote:

King,

Tim's message was posted to the list and was totally readable.

Diane

King Collins wrote:
> Tim Bray,
> Over the last weeks, a couple of your messages have been lost because the content is in html and is scrubbed. 
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> Please repost  your last message which was in response to Diane. If in doubt change the format to "plain text."
> --king
> Here's what your message looks like from the archives, and I don't think anything is posted to the list although I'm not sure about that:  
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> Tim Bray tbray at wildblue.net 
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