[Kzyxtalk] Stuart Campbell's power grab.

[sako4 at comcast.net]

Marco, 




Don't waste your time with this Tim Gregory, whoever he is. He's a troll on our kzyxtalk liserv site. He's nobody, and his shows suck. 




Meanwhile, your shows rock, Marco. They really and truly rock. I'm a listener and a fan. You do 3-4-5 hours of programming at a stretch...show that are, by turns, informative and entertaining. 




And my team and I do great radio here at KMEC. See our whistleblower series on the NSA Surveillance State: 

The CIA's Ray McGovern: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGayl9uNW4A 

The NSA's Bill Binney: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3tG_yJIrW0 

The FBI's Coleen Rowley: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNDLqHblZjo 

The NSA's Tom Drake: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HjYfG4mYEE 

We post our shows to Youtube with text and video. We also post our shows to NPR's Public Radio Exchange and Pacifica's Radio4All for the widest possible distribution. 




Our shows are also archived at the station and available as podcasts. Some of of shows have been downloaded more than 7,000 times. 




Meanwhile, I doubt Tim Gregory's own mother would download her son's shows. Rambling. Incoherent. And just plain stupid. 




And oh, by the way, I forgot to mention that our show here at KMEC is a finalist for a $211,000 grant at a major foundation. 




Best to you, my radio friend and colleague, 




John 

----- Original Message -----

From: "Marco McClean" <memo at mcn.org> 
To: "kzyxtalk" <kzyxtalk at lists.mcn.org> 
Cc: editor at theava.com 
Sent: Wednesday, September 9, 2015 5:07:21 PM 
Subject: Re: [Kzyxtalk] Stuart Campbell's power grab. 

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. 

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


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