[Kzyxtalk] Tim Gregory's darling baby gorilla-chicken.

[Marco McClean]

"Tim Gregory" <tgregory at saber.net>
> 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.  


    What are you here to do, then? You never address any of the many 
good points I have made; you just change the subject. It's hand waving.


 >Norman deVall wrote, "...The challenge is how to open a conversation. 
Their response letter appears to be anything but. No easier to talk with 
the Board than it was to talk with John."


 > Tim Gregory replied: "...Sounds simple but early family counselling 
has talks 'put the baby in the middle'--a point of agreement where both 
parents want the best for the kid... KZYX May be 900# gorilla baby, but 
it brings out the mother hen in all of us..."


    Yeah, see, Tim, you never address /anyone's/ points. The problem is 
the board and managers always have the advantage and can just wait out 
and ignore any voices for change, anything at all that anyone outside 
the bunker writes, any calls for transparency. They've been selectively 
ignoring their own rules and their own mission statement all along; how 
would a new one help?
    Waiting months for a board meeting and then driving two hours to get 
there-- to speak to an angry, pursed-mouthed board for a timed two 
minutes and then be shouted down by the belligerent packed crowd of 
apologists for the board and people who benefit financially from the 
station and deluded "programmers" who think their shows depend on the 
status quo and who apparently love being bossed around by control freaks 
and love not being paid to do the work while the bosses are paid to 
pretend to work-- then waiting for the next meeting, and the next, and 
the next, and so on, has got everyone exactly nowhere in 25 years. All 
writing anyone sends to the board stops with Stuart Campbell, who 
filters what gets to the others. That's why it's so important to have 
this conversation regularly on the air in prime time and on an 
unmoderated forum on the station's web page, which the insiders will 
never allow.
    The people who /are/ the problem are always either whining or 
pontificating from their panic room inside the armored chest of your 
giant robot gorilla. It can never be anything like a counseling session. 
There's no level playing field. There's no bathwater. There's no baby.
    I'll make a deal with you, Tim. You answer some of the concrete 
points I've brought up in the last six months  --the points your mind 
most veers away from-- and then I'll consider writing something you tell 
me to write; a mission statement, why not.

    Just to ground us in reality: all MCPB's existing transmitters and 
mixing boards and microphones and computers and peripheral equipment, 
all together, cost less than $25 a day to operate. David Steffen's and 
Mary Aigner's ridiculously well-paid positions are entirely superfluous 
to the operation of the station. All the crucial tasks of any radio 
station manager can be accomplished in a lazy afternoon per month. The 
yearly CPB grant has always paid for the entire operation of the KZYX 
--overhead, electricity, bookkeeping, tower fees, repairs, internet, 
phones, music publishers' fees, NPR dues, plumbing, everything-- twice 
over. Everything said on the air during every pledge drive, about how 
"the station needs your money and pledges and memberships to keep the 
great shows on the air" is a lie. These aren't opinions. These are 
verifiable facts. Answer some of it, Tim.


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