[Kzyxtalk] Sunday op-ed

[sako4 at comcast.net]

Calm down, Tim. Your indictments of "threats", "bullying", "public spectacle", and "crazy talk" don't speak well of you. The op-ed got published at the UDJ for good reason. Let's not forget the UDJ's own KC Meadows was purged by Aigner. 

As you know, Tim, Ms. Meadows joins a long list of purged people at the station -- programmers, volunteers, Board members, and staff -- all of whom dared to speak out against station management that was, and continues to be, autocratic and self-serving. 

These purged people include Beth Bosk, Norman De Vall, Christina Aanestad, Doug McKenty, Johanna Schultz, King Collins, Sheila Dawn Tracy, DJ Sister Yasmin, M. Kathryn Massey, myself, and others. 

My point: The resentments against Coate and Aigner run long and deep. The day of reckoning is at hand. 

Tim, let's not forget, too, I had as guests on my show a former chair of the FCC and a former commission of the FCC. I've also had a few other really top lawyers...law professors, actually. My complaints against Aigner and Coate were carefully considered and well-crafted; I was well-advised by folks who are passionate about public radio. 

I'm also bringing the fight to the FCC, the CPB, and NPR. Because our arguments are well-documented, the FCC, the CPB, and NPR are all listening. 

What remains is for me to go through the motions of due process at MCPB...the hearing, the grievance, and appeal. 

Because the process for suspended programmers on their way to being purged is rigged by Aigner and Coate, and because Coate and Aigner are probable codefendants in a future lawsuit, I'll insist on an impartial mediator with no connection to MCPB at my hearing. 

I may get somewhere with a mediator. I may get nowhere. 

If a hearing is unproductive, the next step will be for me to write my own demand letter to the Board, followed by own lawyer's demand letter. 

The lawsuit will follow. It's now being revised to include violations of the the California Corporations Code, especially 6334, and violations of FCC and CPB regs. These will be added to the two causes of action in our complaint of intentional infliction of emotional duress by Coate and Aigner and negligence by the Board. 

Don't fret, Tim. All this will come to pass. 

It's the only way I see to save the station and restore it as a truly public, member-controlled station. 

It's the only way to save the station with broadcast equipment that is new and reliable, not rebuilt and unreliable; with technology that includes state-of-the-art things like automatically archived shows, podcasts, smartphone apps, posts to prx.org and radio4all.net, links to social media for each show, links to programmers' blogs, etc.; with finances that are downsized and transparent; and with staff that is younger, more professional, more accountable, more responsive to the community, more fair to programmers and other volunteers, and no history with, or links to, MCPB. 

Be patient. 



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