[Kzyxtalk] Kzyxtalk Digest, Vol 17, Issue 49

[Marco McClean]

"Tim Gregory" <tgregory at saber.net> wrote:
> 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...
>   
    You mean KZYX? That's the tarbaby, for me. I wish I didn't care, but 
I do.
> 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.
>   
    Okay, I'll remember. A great deal of that money is not under the 
bridge yet, though. John Coate has fled, but Mary Aigner and David 
Steffen, who you agree with, are still there, still superfluous, and 
still sucking $80,000 out of the station every year. That's 1,600 $50 
memberships. That's nearly the entire membership base. They need to go. 
And do you think the board won't just install another GM who's just as 
bad as John Coate? Against all reason they praise him to the skies. They 
/want/ another John Coate.
> 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...
>   
    When you say "after the board starts making moves", what do you 
mean? If you know, why not tell?
> four, i say civilization is a veneer on the jungle. civilization hasn't got it right yet, and neither has mcpb, inc.
>   
    I repeat: 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. KZYX should have been hosting an open 
unmoderated forum on its webpage all along. The board that has been 
preventing this is still there, and still insulated from the members and 
public.
> what we have with rural terrestrial radio is a challenge to survive media glut, and
> to keep serving community...
>   
    Survival is as easy as radio is cheap. KZYX' entire real-world 
operation doesn't come to $50,000 a year, and that's always been covered 
by the CPB grant. Survival is not an issue. The core control freaks' 
efforts to keep in control are what has caused all the problems at KZYX.

    Spit up the Koolaid, Tim; it's not doing you any good sloshing 
around in there.

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