[Kzyxtalk] Members demand KZYX records (and) Memo of the Air show change.

[Marco McClean]

Eric Sunswheat wrote:
> ...MCPB President Stuart Campbell stated on air during
> pledge drive, to the effect, that membership information will remain
> confidential with the station, despite requests from other parties to
> release it.
>   
    Eric, Stuart doesn't want the MCPB (KZYX) members, much less the 
public, communicating amongst ourselves without being under his control. 
He certainly have never, and will never, let it happen on the air. He 
claims the reason he doesn't release the members' email addresses is 
that he's prohibited by law to do so! Which is ridiculous, but even if 
that were true, it would be a matter of ten minutes of fiddling with the 
web page to provide a members/public forum that would serve the same end 
and expose no members who wish not to participate. Stuart wrote to me, 
"We are not going to do that." Well, dang, why, Stuart?

    I'll tell you why: The ongoing KZYX regime has only ever been all 
about secrecy and uptight control. And of course anyone who notices it 
is banished and banned and/or otherwise excluded, at best marginalized 
and ignored.

    I'm interested to see how the board tapdances around giving up to 
the paying members the financial and structural information and records 
demanded in the recent letter. I expect a head or two will roll, if not 
pop itself off and flee through the sewers like Harry Lyme in The Third Man.

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Marco McClean
memo at mcn.org
http://MemoOfTheAir.wordpress.com

p.s. I had to go get my mother from San Francisco and bring her back to 
her house, so I'll be doing my show tomorrow (Friday night, 9pm) from 
the station (KNYO, 325 N. Franklin, Fort Bragg) and not by remote from 
far away. If you want to come in and talk about your project, or play a 
musical instrument, or show and tell something, just walk in and head 
for the lighted room at the back. I'll set up a microphone for you.