[Kzyxtalk] Kzyxtalk Digest, Vol 17, Issue 49

[Doug McKenty]

When I was on the board, some board members tried to write a new mission statement. It needs to be shortened. 

We worked on it for a few meetings but, like everything else board members do, nothing came of it. 

The current board has been neutered and is powerless to create policy. The board never votes on anything except the annual budget, and just look at me if you want to find out what happens to someone who votes against it. 

Rather than writing another mission statement, I would say the real challenge is following the one KZYX already has. You know, the one that says the "programming and operational philosophy" is controlled by the membership. 
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> On Jun 23, 2015, at 3:17 PM, Tim Gregory <tgregory at saber.net> wrote:
> 
> thanks for all the opinion all over again, marco, but i'm not here to argue that.
> 
> write kzyx a better mission statement, if you can.
> 
> c'mon, you're a writer, give it a try.
> ---
> 
> 
> 
> "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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