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Tue Dec 29 17:25:57 PST 2015

Love it Richard. Thanks. 

Doug

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> On Dec 29, 2015, at 3:07 PM, Dr Richard Louis Miller <drrichardlmiller at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Richard Louis Miller, M.A., Ph.D.
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> Clinical Psychology
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> Wikipedia: Dr Richard Louis Miller
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> Wikipedia: Wilbur Hot Springs
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> MindBodyHealthPolitics.org
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> Psychepedia.org
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> Dear Members of the KZYX Board:
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> 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.
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> The purpose of this letter is to respectfully request that you form a Board committee to investigate the terminations
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> , 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.
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>  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.
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> 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 ------------."
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> 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
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> s we may not even know why they were fired.  Perhaps  many programmers  could have been suspended instead of fired.
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> Johanna Shultz was told she was
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>  summarily  fired because of language used by a hip hop singer during the 12-4AM safe harbor period.  Johanna was devastated.  
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> Does anyone know why 16 year supervisor Norman
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> du 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 his politics  or not, has given so much of his life to our community?
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>  additional  people on  the list of those terminated.  Els Cooperrider, KC Meadows, Johanna Schultz, Kristina Armistead, Doug Mckenty, John Sakowicz, and more.
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> It  is simply bad public relations  for our station to have so many people in the community who have been fired.  
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> 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
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> 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.
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> With the new regime at KZYX  we have an opportunity to heal the past and start anew with a fresh slate. 
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Wishing you each excellent health,
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> Richard
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> Host, Mind Body Health & Politics. 
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