[Kzyxtalk] board emal addresses - Yes!
King Collins
king at greenmac.com
Wed Jun 17 20:29:33 PDT 2015
Marco said"
> Matter of fact-- and I don't know why this didn't occur to me until
> now-- If you know individual MCPB board members' contact info, send that
> to me and I'll hold onto it for a week or two, and if I don't see it on
> kzyx.org I'll just publish it myself. They're all public people engaged
> in a tax-funded public endeavor and they shouldn't expect to be allowed
> to go incommunicado like Secret Agent X-9.
Excellent idea.
Regarding the difficulty of unionizing KZYX airpeople.
--by Marco McClean
.... Here's a problem I see: after decades of management's
tyrannical winnowing and arbitrary choosing and kicking-out of
airpeople, the pool at KZYX is artificially stuffed with the sort of
people to whom it would never naturally occur to do or say anything
outside of the power's comfy margins, so people like Toni Rizzo actually
/don't/ feel muffled or tyrannized over, so they're inclined to think
anyone who objects to or even notices tyranny is wrong or even crazy,
even people with genuine Kafka/horror stories about how they've been
treated. There are people remaining on the inside (and people too newly
arrived to have pushed one of Mary Aigner's freak buttons yet),
airpeople who are too timid to break out and speak up, but-- say they
do; the majority will overwhelm them the same way whether they squeak
from behind a rock or shout from the housetops, and that's the catch: if
this particular system were fair and democratic at all it would look
much less fair and democratic for missing its false veneer of fairness
and democracy. It's a kind of publicity math puzzle that naturally plays
into the hands of the bad management/board. It's a propaganda trick that
rigs itself.
I agree with Mary Massey and so many others on the outs: Mary
Aigner has got to join us in being on the outside. But so does Stuart
Campbell, who plays information goalie for the board of directors who
individually hide from dealing with the public on station issues. When
you send something to the board, on the web page or via email, it
doesn't go to the board; it goes to Stuart Campbell and /he/ decides
what part of it to send along to the others, if any of it at all. It
means the board members are wielding power from behind (or underneath) a
rock, given only the information Stuart wants them to have, and given
(and giving) the false impression of transparency, and that is
intolerable. Let Mary Aigner and Stuart keep their own radio shows, if
they want to, but they shouldn't have any special power over everyone
else. For the time being, Stuart's on the board; shouldn't that be
enough power for him?
If the rationale for Stuart Campbell being an information goalie is
that it spares the board members from having to spend five minutes a day
dealing with the public, and the other board members go along with that,
then why are they directors of a public radio station? To accompany
their power over the /tax funded station/ they should each be fully open
to the public's input in every aspect of their byzantine pretzel of a
process. And they should be individually contactable by airpeople who
feel that this or that board member might be sympathetic to a problem
they're having with, say, Mary Aigner or whoever becomes the general
manager now that John Coate has fled, because once it's come to the
point of recognizing a problem, that airperson has no incentive to
discuss it with the very person who will be kicking him or her off the
air on the next pretext that conveniently arises. Because, without
access to the individual board members, that's always been the entirety
of the approved grievance procedure at KZYX: going to the same person
who just unjustly yanked your airtime out from under you, in private,
and expressing your disappointment, leaving unsatisfied, and then going
away forever, having been told to keep your mouth shut, which I'm pretty
sure wouldn't please Toni Rizzo. It's like anything else: until it
happens to you it seems unlikely. Once it happens to you its a different
story, though.
The best answer to these problems --in addition to handing Mary
Aigner her final paycheck and keeping her cleaning deposit, and if
board/management will not allow a regularly scheduled truly open
conversation on the air-- is to put an open unmoderated public forum on
the KZYX web page, that airpeople and board members and the public
interested in the workings of the station can all read and participate
in, out in the light of day. I've suggested that several times. I have
had no indication that it got past Stuart, who replied simply, "We're
not going to do that."
Here's a start: the individual board members' email addresses, at
least, should be on the station's contact page.
Matter of fact-- and I don't know why this didn't occur to me until
now-- If you know individual MCPB board members' contact info, send that
to me and I'll hold onto it for a week or two, and if I don't see it on
kzyx.org I'll just publish it myself. They're all public people engaged
in a tax-funded public endeavor and they shouldn't expect to be allowed
to go incommunicado like Secret Agent X-9.
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Marco McClean
memo at mcn.org
http://MemoOfTheAir.wordpress.com
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