[Kzyxtalk] Marco the reasonable

[Tim Gregory]

i'm back at my toshiba, marco and i have to say i agree with david. nobody needs a
second asshole. step away from the tarbaby if you can...

second, about the money spent, forget it. water under the bridge. i agree that
'where there is no memory, there is no blame', though...so: REMEMBER.

third. try to get humbler in the face of the task of having a better operation come
out of genuine discussion. on the board, with the board, after the board starts
making moves. be a contributor, marco, however that may be, like all us shlubs who
keep shlubbing still...

four, i say civilization is a veneer on the jungle. civilization hasn't got it right
yet, and neither has mcpb, inc.

what we have with rural terrestrial radio is a challenge to survive media glut, and
to keep serving community...

which brings me to MY challenge [let's make a contest?]...
how would you [any of you] write/re-word the station's mission statement?
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Marco,
Hi, mm...sorry I'm on a sorry kindle, but thank you for personalizing so politely
your complex of concerns.

Keeping in mind the primary focus (operative interpretation of mission statement) I
will get back to you soon.
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----- Original Message -----

From: "Marco McClean" <memo at mcn.org>
To: "kzyxtalk" <kzyxtalk at lists.mcn.org>
Cc: editor at theava.com, "MCPB Board" <BOD at kzyx.org>, discussion at lists.mcn.org
Sent: Sunday, June 21, 2015 11:24:39 PM
Subject: [Kzyxtalk] The board's, the management's and Tim Gregory's magic bubble.

>
> Tim Gregory <tgregory at saber.net> wrote under the subject: Re: [Kzyxtalk] on
> dictators, goons, sycophants, stuffed shirts and cheerleaders, and cheering mobs:
>
> "Too bad Norman...you see the tool John [Sakowicz] has has made of your efforts at
> discussion? Some folks never learn boundaries--the world is their magic bubble..."
>

Okay, Tim, think of it the other way around. Imagine reading a
speech-to-text output of all the pledge-drive talk from a single day of
a typical unlistenable KZYX pledge drive, about how the station needs
more and more money in memberships and donations just to keep the great
programs coming, and about how it's like a great big restaurant where
all the listeners eat for free and so are bound by honor to pay up, so
pay up, and so on, and then the fatuous chuckling, and praise of the
management and staff who do /so much/ under such /difficult conditions/...

Now try to hold this in the same mind: just the manager and program
director and ad (underwriting) salesman together suck $140,000 a year
out of the station --the equivalent of 2,800 yearly fifty-dollar
memberships --more members than KZYX ever had or will have.

Mary Aigner's position (program director) is entirely superfluous.
NPR and other syndicated shows switch in and out automatically. Deejays
show up and play their CDs and once per hour ID the station, and when
they don't show up automation covers for them. What do you suppose
Mary's directing but a sine wave graph of pledge drive activity, so she
can continue to be paid to pretend to be needed and to quite viciously
defend her turf and her undeserved authority over others.

David Steffen is paid more than whatever he imagines /he's/ winning
for the station in return for it. Naturally he's a snarling dog for the
status quo.

And all John Coate has accomplished in eight years: sucking out of
the station for himself /half a million dollars/, firing the news
department right off the bat and 7.6 years later starting a pretend new
one, occasionally telephoning an engineer to half-assedly patch things
together for him, faking up the occasional financial report, and adding
approximately one bell and two whistles to a web page.

The CPB grant has always paid twice-over all the real-life expenses
of running and maintaning KZYX. How can you not grasp, Tim, that you'd
still get to do your show if the disastrous expensive top-down hierarchy
were deposed, and-- maybe my show would be on KZYX too, and the shows of
others who over the years have run afoul of the bad humour of the /real/
usurpers of the radio frequency, which is a natural resource, not a shoe
store. Three frequencies, in the case of MCPB. The money is there.
Airpersons can and should be paid for their work.

You say, "Too bad, Norman," but really, it's too bad for all of us.
You see the tool the "dictators, goons, sycophants, stuffed shirts and
cheerleaders" have made of our good faith and, for many of us, of our
lifelong efforts to provide a place for educational noncommercial
radiopeople to do audio art and science. Those dictators, goons, etc.
running the station have caused all their own troubles from within their
magic bubble of reactionary privilege --that's a good term, and an
accurate description, and they blame it all on others when anything
threatens that bubble. And /they/ get angry enough for their heads to
explode. We've all seen it.

This conversation should be taking place regularly on the air, and
in a forum on the KZYX web page, where boardmembers, and so-called
management, and airpeople --and the public, who pay for the station with
their taxes whether they like it or not-- can all participate equally,
in the light. It's crazy that Norman should have had to start this
listserv in the first place. KZYX should have been hosting an open
unmoderated forum on its webpage all along.

So John Sakowicz talks like an angry man. There are some real things
and creatures to be angry about at KZYX, and they've dug the hole
they're in, and they're still digging. I have trouble understanding why
you won't recognize this, Tim.


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


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