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Richard Louis Miller, M.A., Ph.D.

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Dear Members of the KZYX Board:

I am writing this because I will be preparing for my Tuesday January 5
radio broadcast  and thus  will be unable to attend the Monday night Board
meeting in Ukiah.

The purpose of this letter is to respectfully request that you form a Board
committee to investigate the terminations
, in recent years.
of a very  long list of KZYX programmers.  It is because the list
 of those terminated 
is so long that I am making this request. In fact, more people have been
fired from KZYX during my almost 10 years with the station, than I have
witnessed being fired in my entire  65  year working career.

I  hope
 and trust 
that in a small community,  such as ours, differences between programmers
and management
 can mostly 

be cooperatively handled by sitting
, 
talking
 and sometimes mediating.
Unfortunately this has not been the case.  To the contrary
, 
there have been summary firings which have caused, disgrace, dishonor and
negative feelings towards the station
,
its paid  employees
 and the volunteer elected  Board of Directors.

O
ver the years 
I have called the station GM and offered to mediate a meeting between
management and a fired programmer.  I was told "thanks but no thanks. I
won't talk to that
------------
."

As we all know the national journalist Brian Williams was caught falsifying
information.  He was demoted but he did not lose his job or his career.  At
KZYX  I believe you will find that programmers  have been  fired for
 infractions and in some case
s
we
may not 
even know why they were fired.
Perhaps
 many
 programmers 
could have been suspended instead of fired.

Johanna Shultz was told she was
 summarily 
fired because of language used by a hip hop singer during the 12-4AM safe
harbor period.  Johanna was devastated.

Does anyone know why 16 year supervisor Norman
d
u
Vall was fired? It beggars the imagination to understand why Norm was fired
rather  than talked with and negotiated with.
  How are we to  understand the  firing of  
  a
volunteer
 in his 70s  who, whether you agree with hi
s politics 
or not, has given so much of his life to our community?

There are  many
 additional 
people on  the list of those terminated.  Els Cooperrider, KC Meadows,
Johanna Schultz, Kristina Armistead, Doug Mckenty, John Sakowicz,
and more.

It
 is simply bad public relations  for our station to have so many people in
the community who have been fired.

It was to be expected  that in a community of activists some of those many
people   fired would  band together to take legal action in the  pursuit of
some form of satisfaction,  nihilistic though
they 
 may be.  The amount of money
managerial failure 
 cost the station is most unfortunate and I believe it could have been
avoided via negotiation
/mediation 
instead of
firing
.

Many firings in the workplace  cause
 some 
workers to feel unsafe and
they 
  avoid speaking up for what they believe in
 when

 they think speaking out will get them fired.

With the new regime at KZYX  we have an opportunity to heal the past and
start anew with a fresh slate.

Creating a Board committee to look into the firings and possibly invite
some of the fired programmers to return, would be a proper humanitarian
effort and would do a great deal for the public image of the station.

Thank you for taking the time to read my letter and consider my request.
I love our station and consider it a privilege to be allowed to
broadcast... especially considering some of  my admitted  eccentricities.

Wishing you each excellent health,

Richard

Host, Mind Body Health & Politics.
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