[Kzyxtalk] Fwd: Beth Bosk

[sako4 at comcast.net]

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From: sako4 at comcast.net 
To: "kzyxboard" <kzyxboard at lists.mcn.org> 
Sent: Monday, November 30, 2015 3:45:09 PM 
Subject: Beth Bosk 

Dear Mr. Campbell: 

Let this email serve as my demand as a Board Director that Beth Bosk's application also be brought before the entire Board and not killed in the Search Committee -- a committee to which you refused to name me. 

An email from Ms. Bosk that was posted to both MCN's announce listserve and discussion listserve is found below. 

Ms. Bosk is a qualified candidate. As with Mr. McClean, her history with KZYX goes back to its founding, 25-years ago. She was an experienced and popular radio host and producer here at KZYX. 

Ms. Bosk is also an experienced and popular newspaperwoman -- the editor of The New Settler Interviews . Her newspaper is funded by both advertisers and readers, and that could translate into members and underwriters for KZYX. 

Perhaps most importantly, Ms. Bosk reeks of integrity. She was one of the organizers of Redwood Summer in 1990. She helped save our old-growth redwoods. She continues to be a strong environmental activist. Recently, she refused to shut up during public comment at a recent meeting of the Mendocino County Board of Supervisors when speaking out against the controversial "hack and squirt" practices of the Mendocino Redwood Company and other timber companies. 

Ms. Bosk is well-known and highly respected. 

Thank you. 

John Sakowicz 
MCPB Board of Directors, 2013-2016; Board Tresurer, 2044 

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Folks: Just want KZYX/Z listeners to know that I applied to the 
chair of the committee through Stuart the minute I heard a search 
committee for a new station manager was being formed. 

I did so as both a resident of the Mendocino coast from the 5th 
District (which has no representation on the current KZYX/Z Board), 
and as a founding programmer of KZYX, who spent six months organizing 
support on the coast for a radio station, locally oriented, that would 
address the interests of three groups not being served by commercial 
radio in Mendocino County: Folks with classical music tastes, 
folks who preferred Bluegrass and/or Alternative Music; and those of 
us active in Forest and Ocean protection who wanted a radio station 
that gave ample time to the enterprises of local people through 
thoughtful talk radio, originating from the Philo studio. 
Which is what I provided in a weekly, two-hour, mid-day show called 
4th Gate Gazette. 

The phone line was always open while I was on the air, and for three 
years listener participation contributed greatly to the quality and 
popularity and range of 4th Gate Gazette. I was fired by a new 
general manager (the first to insist he be addressed as GM) a 
fortnight after a survey identified 4th Gate Gazette as the 
listeners' favorite program. 

While I was a volunteer at KZYX, I held off an FBI 'Prior Restraint' 
foray, and lobbied relentlessly that an independent News Department 
be established. 

I also supported the station's original Mission Statement: the 
promise that there would be consistent attempts to elicit the 
participation of the County's Indian and Latino communities, and that 
they be reflected both in local programming and Board participation. 
The granting of the license was originally based on those promises. 
More than anyone, I was responsible for the hiring of Joseph Leon as 
the first News Director and insistent that Joseph be allowed to 
pursue his own style. 

And despite Annie Esposito's earnest efforts, the only time KZYX/Z 
covered the matters of the local Indian reservations and rancherias 
as a natural part of the County's fabric was when Joseph, himself a 
native man, was news director. 

We have three white, female news providers and no coverage of 
so-called "underserved communities". 

I worked at the station as a volunteer programmer at a time when the 
spirit and say-so was much more collaborative. 
And it worked. 

Clay Eubanks never got back to me. The coast remains unrepresented . 
. . along with every Indian and Latino resident of Mendocino and Lake 
counties. 

It's inexcusable that this selection committee continues to 
demographically represent so few elements of the signals range. 

--beth bosk 



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