[Kzyxtalk] misplaced no confidence.

[Clark Fish]

well, another listener heard from. i was addressing the unhelpful warpage
of facts
[done with great literary flourish, in marco's case]. why vent your
disappointment
in my direction, cf?

Tim, Perhaps I misunderstood the intent of you comments. That being said,
each of us by definition has got to be guilty of "warpage of facts" in one
form or another...I believe that the correct term is "perspective." "Haters
gonna hate" is a perspective, but it is NOT constructive criticism and may
or may not even be true in Marcos case. Even though I agree with more then
several of his opinions regarding KZYX,  I personally do NOT hate KZYX, JC,
MA, and SC, though I do take issue with some of the ways that the station
 is in fact being managed by a junta, even though it is SUPPOSED to be
community radio overseen by a responsive and transparent board of directors.

CF

On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 10:33 AM, Tim Gregory <tgregory at saber.net> wrote:

> well, another listener heard from. i was addressing the unhelpful warpage
> of facts
> [done with great literary flourish, in marco's case]. why vent your
> disappointment
> in my direction, cf?
>
> i will share/remind that in the current [autocratic?] admin of the
> station, the
> board's your only remedy. sako's grandstanding has proceeded in 1-2 yrs.
> isolation
> from ALL other boardmembers, despite the group's efforts at reasoning with
> his
> concerns. 'ace interviewer' or  pathetic 'enfant terrible'? would members
> re-elect
> him if he ran again? doug, by contrast, has thusfar unsuccessfully kept
> trying to
> mediate community, in and out of office. i feel he's grown through his
> effort.
>
> anyone with an ounce of memory can see where community is losing out to
> syndicated
> programming...but not everyone is suited to the real [albeit volunteer]
> jobs of the
> board, which require patience and teamplay. new members must climb a
> learning curve
> to work effectively as a body--even with an offshore banker/would-be
> pirate on
> board.
>
> my vote's cast. i hope for the best. we'll get the board we deserve.
> ---
>
>
>
> cf wrote: I guess that means that you did get your ballot??
>
> I might add, I don't HATE anyone or anything that I haven't met or tried
> personally
> first, which means I DON'T hate Stuart, Mary or John, though I am NOT at
> all
> satisfied with the way the station has opted for the NPR programming over
> better
> LOCAL coverage like Christine Aanestad used to be so good at before she
> was canned,
> or Richard Millers program, or Norman Devalls Access program and even Doug
> McKentys
> Open Lines that he was so GOOD at!! And John Sakowicz, despite his
> eccentricities,
> is an ACE interviewer, something that cannot be said about ANYONE else
> reporting for
> KZYX right now, unless for some reason you count Amy Goodman.   And I DO
> know and
> HAVE talked with the people above who Mary has canned over the years. And
> while I
> liked some of the shows and not others, the common theme is that Mary
> Aigner canned
> them because she didn't like their viewpoints…that is NOT public radio as
> it should
> be where ONE person controls access to programming despite their being
> legally
> binding (though sometimes disappearing)  bylaws that provide for the CAB
> to help
> select programming.  All that being said,  I probably wouldn't even bother
> having an
> opinion about it if I could hear KMUD where I live.
> But I can't and KZYX is SUPPOSED to be a non profit, community radio
> station, NOT
> some sort of jobs program for a few staffers. So, I DON"T hate it, but I
> DON'T like
> it either..it's just too BORING to be good radio!!!
>
>
> i wrote: yes, cf, i did. if you can keep from CAPSLOCKING, you can
> probably get a
> good reply from stuart about his process...
>
> i agree with the idea of a bonded accounting. the 'numbered ballot' was
> thought to
> be invasive, i think, but i'd love to get a receipt...it's true the
> members have had
> to trust the board + accountant. i can only remember one shady abrogation
> in my 15+
> yrs on scene.
> ---
>
>
>
> Tim, did YOU get you ballot already?? And WHY should some people get them
> weeks
> earlier then others, and then others get them only at the last week or not
> at all??
> Aren't these ballots being mailed by a hired election company, or does
> Stuart mail
> them out individually as he has time to do so??  In which case I could
> understand it
> taking some time, but then why would Marco have to wait yet another full
> week after
> signing an affidavit about a missing ballot and requesting one from
> Stuart??
> (Netflix gets my movie returns OVERNIGHT) Is Stuart overwhelmed with
> mailings??
> Perhaps Mary Aigner and John Coate are helping him out ?? (kinda of a
> scary thought,
> given all the other work they have to do by themselves for KZYX)  And who
> actually
> ENSURES that ALL the ballots get mailed out…Is there a way to cross
> check the list
> of ballots mailed with ballots received?? IS there any transparency in the
> election
> process??  I realize that these are MANY questions, but  please answer the
> only ones
> that you can, particularly the FIRST question…did YOU get your ballot
> yet??
>
> Sincerely,
> Clark Fish
>
> On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 3:47 PM, Tim Gregory <tgregory at saber.net> wrote:
>
> > haters gonna hate...seems your disaffection is equally as complete as
> sako's. too
> > much brilliance in service of wounded egos, to me, however real your
> demons turn out
> > to be...
> > can't say as i blame you for speculating about yr missing ballot,
> though...
> perhaps, marco, if you could ameliorate it with something brilliant about
> what you
> > love about the station, over and above, or transcending disagreements.
> >   ---
> > http://kzyx.org/index.php/about-us/station-business/contact-the-board
> >      No KZYX board election ballot yet in my p.o. box, despite my having
> > called the station weeks ago because others told me they got theirs, and
> despite my
> > having written, communicated with Stuart Campbell, got via email a form
> to fill out
> > and filled it out and signed it to swear, as requested, that if I got a
> ballot
> > beyond the one I didn't get but might get I'd destroy it, and physically
> mailing
> > that form to the address provided on it by the "election coordinator".
> And a full
> > week after that, after checking my p.o. box again, I'm out of town, as I
> said I
> > would be, and won't get to my box now until the night of Saturday the
> 28th, a single
> > post-office day before the election deadline.
> >      I'm beginning to think somebody up there (at KZYX) doesn't like me.
> > Also, given how the board and management have behaved so far in other
> areas, this
> > doesn't inspire confidence in the election process. I wonder how many
> other members
> > didn't get their ballot; and how would it even be possible to find out?
> >      In the previous election less than a third of the members' votes
> > were even counted and, given that, a reform candidate lost by a handful
> of  votes.
> >      And in case this is the only chance I get to officially say so,
> > which it looks like it is, if I had not been prevented from voting I
> would have
> > voted for Dennis O'Brien and Doug McKenty, based on their candidate
> statements,
> > their writing to kzyxtalk at lists.mcn.org, and their comments at the
> single short
> > farce of an on-air forum.
> > ---------------------------
> > Marco McClean
> > memo at mcn.org
> > http://MemoOfTheAir.wordpress.com
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