[Kzyxtalk] Link to recording of the KZYX board meeting in Fort Bragg 6pm 2015-02-02

[Marco McClean]

    (I'm crossposting this, so if you get it on the Announce list please 
don't reply there but on the Discussion list where discussion belongs.)

    I would have videorecorded the meeting but I forgot the tripod nut-- 
left it in the other camera bag-- so I just recorded sound. Loud people 
are loud and quiet people are quiet, and clapping is piercing, but you 
can clearly hear what everyone has to say and also hear a little of what 
sort of people they are. You can hear my voice shaking --I was 
frightened to speak; I'm so much more comfortable on the radio, where 
I'm alone and prepared and I'm not buffeted by bad memories of how 
poorly I and people like me have been treated by KZYX for twenty-five years.

    For my part, when I got home at about midnight I got email John 
Sakowitz had sent in the afternoon saying he couldn't make the meeting 
and urging me to say nearly exactly what I ended up saying anyway, which 
was that KZYX could pay for needed new equipment to sound better --in 
some cases sound at all-- and not have to run so many unlistenable 
pledge drives, and also could pay the airpeople for doing what the 
station is there to do in the first place, if only the handful of 
entrenched managers were stripped of their ridiculously inflated 
salaries and instead paid at the same rate as the airpeople for hours 
actually worked.

    My favorite part is where the chairperson mansplains how it's 
perfectly legal and moral for the general manager, an employee of the 
board that sets his salary, to use his position to influence who gets on 
the board, as long as he doesn't do it on the air but only privately 
and/or on his own time, because he has freedom of speech. Ahem.

    Sheila Tracy is an impressive reporter. During the meeting she 
filled up an entire yellow legal pad with notes and straightened the 
crowd and the board out on several points of order.

    MendocinoTV streaming had some technical problems and was cut off 
early. So if anyone needs the audiorecording of the meeting for a 
project or whatever, here it is, all two hours of it:

http://www.mediafire.com/listen/q1c6y1md999zq5f/KZYX_board_meeting_Fort_Bragg_2015-02-02.mp3

    I had to use an unfamiliar machine to upload it and I couldn't test 
the link, and I only have dialup where I am right now. So if it doesn't 
work for you, let me know and I'll upload it again tomorrow night and 
get you a link that for sure works right. Mediafire is finicky.

    Oh, right, all board meetings should be done live on the air on KZYX 
and their place-and-time advance notice should be on the main page of 
the station's website, not hidden several layers in. I forgot to say 
that. Dang.