[Kzyxtalk] Stuart Campbell's power grab

[sako4 at comcast.net]

Dear friends and neighbors, 

Breaking news. Stuart Campbell, President of the KZYX Board of Directors, has succeeded in an unprecedented power grab -- it was announced at last night Board meeting that Campbell is KZYX's new Executive Director and General Manager. 

Wow! 

Is Campbell really an improvement over the arrogant fustiness of outgoing KZYX Executive Director and General Manager, John Coate? 

Let's see. 



I just researched Stuart Campbell's ratings as an instructor at Santa Rosa Junior College. His ratings suck, and he hated teaching -- all he ever talked about was retiring. Now, Campbell is KZYX's new executive director and general manager. 




So, it looks like Stuart Campbell got the job he's always wanted in last night's unprecedented power grab. 




Campbell will find that the KZYX job is easy money. The job pays $30 an hour. There's no formal job description except to pontificate at will. There's no formal oversight except to get a complacent board to rubber stamp everything and anything. And no time logs or work logs to fill out. 




Campbell will also get to keep his own hours, work from home, and come and go at will. Unpaid volunteers at the station -- its 70-80 programmers who host public affairs and music shows -- will continue to do all the work. 




Worst of all, Campbell will get to purge his critics at will, and otherwise be a total control freak, much as Coate did. The KZYX Board of Directors abrogated its oversight responsibilities long ago. 




Also, Campbell will get to rig elections, as Coate did. He will get to tailor the station's by-laws to serve his ends, as Coate did. And Campbell will get keep the station's 2,100 members as uninformed, unorganized, and powerless as much as possible, again like Coate. 




Nothing has changed at KZYX since Coate except for the fact that we're doing a better job with local news. 




KZYX still hasn't made the necessary investments in broadcast infrastructure. We have dead air, fuzz outs, and a irritating, scratchy signal. And we still don't have a studio in Ukiah. 




Also, we still have unnecessary and way-too-expensive salaried staff who do not disclose their salaries, while at the same time refusing to submit to formal job descriptions, work logs, or job performance evaluations by the Board of Directors. Perhaps worst of all, the station's grossly overpaid and tyrannical Program Director, Mary Aigner, will continue to make all programming decisions, censor programmers, and purge her critics. 


Back to Stuart Campbell. 




Attached is a link to student ratings of Professor Stuart Campbell (Philosophy classes) over the years with Santa Rosa Junior College. 




See: http://www.ratemyprofessors.com/ShowRatings 




Here is a sampling of those ratings from the students who thought enough about their experiences with Professor Campbell to post. 

Comment No.1. "Professor Campbell's overall rating is 2.6 out of a 4.0 grading system. Professor Campbell is not listed on the September 2015 roster as a faculty member, which means his move to place himself as Interim GM has been in the works throughout the summer months. I, as a Board Member, was not informed of Mr. Campbell's lateral move to become the Interim GM. Nor was I told about the changes in Officers of which I was willfully excluded." 

Comment No. 2. ""I like him as a human but the class is absolutely painful to sit through and I feel like he has made it so much worse than it needs to be. I am not learning a darn thing." 




Comment No. 3. "The first month of class he would lecture us, this was the most bored I had ever been, he would veer off and talk about retirement a lot. No textbook or quizzes. The entire second half is ALL group project work with a research paper at the end. I have to say, at first I loathed this class, 





Comment No. 4. "Terrible teacher and class. Tests on material not discussed in class or in the book. Very boring class and very useless material. I would rather deploy to Iraq than take this prof again." 


Comment No. 5. "Avoid at all cost! Classes are awkward and unclear. He seems to encourage class discussion that goes wildly off topic. Again...AVOID!!!" 





Respectfully submitted, 




John Sakowicz 

KZYX Board of Directors (2013-201), Board Treasurer (2014) 


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