[Kzyxtalk] Stuart Campbell's power grab.

[Marco McClean]

Tim Gregory wrote, in response to a post by John Sakowicz:
 > you poked the tarbaby, jane. this how he keeps his bullshit 
coming...promotes his
 > 'show'...obtains revenge...knocks china off the shelf...
 > who plays gets played.

     Tim, you're going to need a bigger screen to fit all that 
projection onto.

     In real life, John Sakowicz consistently produces a better, more 
informative and more interesting show than you do. So do I, and so do 
lots of people who've been banned from KZYX --several of us have died of 
cancer and old age and so on --that's how long this has been going on-- 
and you keep getting to fill hours of airtime there with your dronelike 
somnambulistic platitudinous mumbletry, and better airpeople are 
permanently marginalized and shut out not only from doing shows but also 
from any possibility of influencing the decisionmaking process there. 
Stuart Campbell used his last days of power on the board to stack the 
(powerless Potemkin) committees with his like-minded cronies, and then 
he got himself appointed general manager of the gravy train. John 
Sakowicz points this out, and you call bullshit on John Sakowicz?

     I don't know if you ever saw the animated film /Wizards/ by Ralph 
Bakshi (R.I.P.). It had a character who I think of whenever I read 
something by an insider at KZYX saying something like what you always 
say when you stick up for KZYX' classically paranoid, tyrannical, 
greedy, conniving, false-faced Nice People management.

     The character is Larry, a toady, rather a talking lizard, but a 
toady in the sense of an obsequious underling, a slavish creature. His 
master bats him around and treats him poorly, and so far from thinking 
well of him thinks nothing of him at all, but /lets him stay in the 
castle and nibble at the cast off food there/, so he knows which side 
his bread is buttered on, as they say. As /he/ says, sounding like a 
lizard version of Peter Lorre, "Masther loves Larry! Masther /feeds/ Larry!"

     Tim, I'm trying to get you paid with real-life money for your work, 
such as it is. John Sakowicz is trying to, among other things, get you 
paid for your work. But your corporate masters want to keep all the 
money for themselves. Pull your face out of the bong and focus on that 
for a moment.

     There will come an opportunity, a turning point for you, as there 
does for Larry at the end of the film, to recognize your true situation 
and finally withhold a piece of crucial support from your masters. When 
that happens, I hope you make the same informed grownup human decision 
Larry makes.

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