[Kzyxtalk] Daney's KZYX management selection committee question of Doug McKenty.

[Marco McClean]

Re: Daney's KZYX management selection committee question of Doug McKenty.

Daney Dawson wrote:
Thanks, Doug. Do you know how the committee was selected? I've heard 
that there is no one representing the coast on it. I have not seen any 
notices about it, and I would hope there would be a way for members to 
have input other than attending meetings, since traveling to the far 
reaches of the county is not feasible for most people. I would ask 
Sheila Dawn but I don't know how.  Perhaps if she's reading this she 
could respond publicly. I must not be the only person wondering.

     Marco here. I think all the committees were picked by Stuart 
Campbell according to his whim. I read that the board picked the 
committees, but I don't think that's entirely true. I know for a fact 
that Stuart personally vengefully excluded at least one qualified 
applicant from being on any committee at all.

     Stuart Campbell got himself appointed general manager as his last 
act when he was president of the board of directors.

     That's the same Stuart Campbell who for years intercepted all 
communication to the board, to decide whether to pass it along or not. 
And the same Stuart Campbell with his tentacles in every aspect of the 
so-called elections for board members.

     Also that's the same Stuart Campbell with no previous experience in 
radio, who taught philosophy at Santa Rosa Junior College and amassed 
abysmal* student reviews of his classes even though the average grade he 
passed out was "A".  Everyone in all his classes got a A, and they still 
gave him bad reviews; that's some achievement. Here: 
http://tinyurl.com/nn3f7yt

*Not the lowest rating in the department, but in the lowest 16th 
percentile. Oh-- look at that. Gordon Black. Aww.

     Also, and I'm sure this will interest you: having just applied at 
nearly the last minute before the deadline for the position of manager, 
I experienced a mild frisson of concern that Stuart Campbell, as current 
manager, might be the one goal-tending the email box that was posted as 
where to send in applications (the box I used) so I went to the 
station's website just now and clicked on About --no directors' email 
addresses there, but there's a link to /Members of the Board of 
Directors/. Click on it and you're dumped back out at the home page. So 
there's no freely contacting the board anymore at all, if there ever 
was. And there's no notice anywhere of the committees, nor their 
purposes and powers, nor who is on them. And I have email from Stuart 
Campbell, from two board meetings back, refusing to place in the 
station's public inspection file anything I write to the board because, 
as he put it, "There's no provision for that." It's true that, unlike 
with a commercial station, a noncommercial station is not legally 
required to do anything but shred any communication from the paying 
members or the public (!), but that's the first thing I'll change when 
I'm managing there. It may not be a legal requirement, but its an 
ethical requirement, after all. Also it takes less effort to slip a 
letter or email into the file than to destroy it. So it's just malice, 
then, again, on Stuart's part.

     That reminds me, I remember reading email from Stuart Campbell to 
another board member, where he wrote angrily --and this is not out of 
context-- "No one has a right to be on the air at KZYX!" I hope you 
disagree with him on that point, as all should.

     Hmm, in Contact Us, there is still the link labeled /You can 
contact the KZYX Board of Directors by filling out this form./ But, 
again, who has access to what's sent there? Is it still just Stuart 
Campbell?

     Does that seem right to you? I mean, which is it, is he an octopus 
or a virus? And how do you fight that? Boiling, maybe. Or direct 
sunlight. Or real radio.

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