[Kzyxtalk] Seriously, Gordon?

[Marco McClean]

Gordon Black wrote: "Marco McLean [sic] adds to his curses against KZYX 
management as, "classically [sic] paranoid, tyrannical, greedy, 
conniving, false-faced…." But don't forget your old "utterly corrupt," 
Marco. I liked that one. After a year and a half of indulging complaints 
from some names known on these pages, the Federal Communications 
Commission has renewed the broadcast license for KZYX&Z."

Okay, Gordon, I never complained to the FCC.  And the people who 
complained never did so to harm the station, nor could they have harmed 
it; the FCC /never/ removes a station's license once granted, so your 
crowing that it spent two years thinking about it and then didn't do it 
isn't any kind of endorsement of quality, either of the FCC's 
deliberations or of KZYX. Stuart Campbell bitches that it cost MCPB 
thousands of dollars to defend the station-- well, Stuart Campbell sucks 
$5000 every month out of the station for himself, to do an hour of 
paperwork per week. It's the exact same job that Bob Young does for zero 
dollars at KNYO.

And for all the yay-team blattery that you have ever blatted in favor of 
the club of sleazeballs that runs KZYX entirely for their own benefit, 
you have never answered a single one of my points, such as that KZYX 
management pissed away four million tax-derived dollars on itself over 
the last 26 years, and further pissed away many times that in membership 
dues and contributions, to squat like a toad on three county-spanning 
educational-band frequencies and eject good people and throttle dissent, 
and in all that time you and most of the other airpeople, who are 
allowed to keep your shows only because you're entirely mediocre and 
harmless to management, not to mention cheerleading territorial lapdogs, 
have never been paid a cent. The bosses are paid. You show up to work, 
you work, and /you/ should be paid.

I don't have time to go over again for you all the points I have ever 
raised in the AVA and the UDJ and the kzyxtalk listserv, Gordon, because 
I'm working on my Friday night KNYO show. I put about twenty 
concentrated hours every week into getting the show ready. If you, or 
Tim Gregory, or any of a couple dozen of the genially-stoned-sounding 
button-pushers and hourly station identifiers there have ever put even 
five minutes into preparing your shows I would be very surprised.

Even so, I still want the email addresses of the airpeople at KZYX --as 
a member I'm part owner of the station, after all-- in order to lay out 
a case to all of you for all of you to be paid. Again: there are many 
historical words for a system where the bosses are paid and wield all 
the power and the people actually doing the work are never paid and have 
no power at all, not even creative control over their own work.

And I still contend that it's a mark of Mary Aigner's well-remunerated 
incompetence that my high-quality, interesting, informative and 
entertaining show wasn't on the schedule at KZYX within six months of my 
offering it --in February of 2012-- and still isn't, and will never be 
as long as she's in power. I understand several airpeople spoke up for 
me to no avail. Eduardo Smissen among them.

I was talking with one of my real-world employers about this awhile 
ago.  I said, "If I just let it go, then they win."  He said, "Marco, 
they won a long time ago."  That's true; I see that. But it's not right, 
and I feel like writing, and I write.

Speaking of which, until I get access to the airpeople's email list, 
will you click the three clicks necessary to cut and paste this letter 
into an email from you to the exclusive KZYX programmers' listserv for 
me? I'd be obliged. Include my signature lines:

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