[Kzyxtalk] Seriously, Gordon?

[Tim Gregory]

'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.'

don't guess you can go a post without slagging somebody, marco--attempting witty,
sardonic, or just mean hyperbole, and belying your general lack of affection for
much of anything except your suitcase full of the radio business.

all that prep, all that pomp, for so little love coming out the other end...why? how
dried up must your life be after kzyx refused to pay you for your genius? could 10%
of your failure to please been your own doing?

gotta start somewhere, tin man. get even smaller, get out of bed with the tarbaby,
start bringing some thanks and wellwishing for what kzyx manages to do right...grow
your heart, accept others on THEIR learning curves. or not.

of course you're not alone in your analyses, but you're not likely to win with a
losing hand, either. so now i ask you [tho you've ducked actual honest 'discussion'
on this list]: is this the extent of your post-licensing strategy? or are the haters
just warming up to attempt to defeat the next kzyx pledge drive?
---
extra credit: wiki: sardonic laughter:

    Among the very ancient people of Sardinia, who were called Sardi or Sardoni, it
was customary to kill old people. While killing their old people, the Sardi
laughed loudly. This is the origin of notorious sardonic laughter (Eugen Fehrle,
1930), now meaning cruel, malicious laughter. In light of our findings things
begin to look different. Laughter accompanies the passage from death to life; it
creates life and accompanies birth. Consequently, laughter accompanying killing
transforms death into a new birth, nullifies murder as such, and is an act of
piety that transforms death into a new life...



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


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