[Kzyxtalk] [MCN-Announce]- censoring letters to the editor

[Scott Peterson]

Marco nailed it.


Also, Slafkes was on the Fort Bragg Senior Center's board of trustees for two years following the mass resignation there in 2012. Five trustees walked out after being harassed for doing their job. Which happened to be firing Charle Bush. Slafkes joined right after that, giving the suddenly un-fired Bush a blank check to do whatever he wanted, resulting in an IRS audit earlier this year. There's more detail here:


https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bxf2TM2uxGxFNVlIZ0tSMHJUOFU/view?usp=sharing


Slafkes says "This one woman's experience of the death of an elder is only scratching the surface of what _we_ [emphasis added] are doing to elders on the coast." -- but that sure doesn't include me. The Senior Center's stated mission includes finding employment for people age fifty-five and older for Gualala in the South to Hales Grove in the North -- and all the way to Comptche in the East. But the only jobs it's ever found are for a handful of people in Fort Bragg. And the highest paid employee there today is Charles Bush himself.


On 12/29/2016 11:38 AM, Mark Slafkes wrote:
 > ...Our Seniors are hungry, housed in awful living conditions, and are
being abandoned to God only knows what.  To me, *these* are the shameful
acts and not the failure of the Advocate to publish a letter, unedited.
 >
 > Folks, please focus on the real tragedies that are taking place every
day.
 >
 > This one woman's experience of the death of an elder is only
scratching the surface of what we are doing to elders on the coast.
 >
 > Rather than focus on the Advocate's failure to provide a desired
forum for someone's distress, how about actually helping the Senior
Center to support our elders.  How about forcing the Mendocino County
Health Department to...


     Exactly, dude, and Joe had to go /around/ the absentee-owned
pretend-local rag's censorship of his mother's letter to bring you to
comment so. He had to go to /real publications to announce the censorship./

     A newspaper's chief duty is to provide "a forum for someone's
distress." The other places Joe informed-- MendocinoSportsPlus, and the
listserv, and the Anderson Valley Advertiser, and KNYO-- are at least
trying to perform that service, where the so-called Fort Bragg Advocate
never reliably has.

     I can't count the times people have told me they wrote a letter to
the Advocate/Beacon and the editors refused to publish it because they
were afraid of pissing off advertisers and the city administration, or
they were afraid of being sued. A /real/ local newspaper's letters
column is a common carrier. My paper was. My teevee show was. My radio
show is.


     Speaking of which, I'll be doing my radio show by live remote from
away this Friday night, so if you were planning to come to the
storefront and play your musical instrument(s) or talk about your
project, let that be next week (Jan. 6) when I'll be back in town. It's
325 N. Franklin, next to the Tip Top bar. Just walk in and head for the
lighted room at the back and get my attention. I'll leave a microphone
on for you.

     Whether here or there I'm always happy to read aloud on the air
whatever you send me. That's the main reason I do the show; everything
else is filler. Just email it to me by about 5pm Friday.

     Memo of the Air: Good Night Radio, 9pm to about 4am every Friday
night on 107.7fm KNYO-LP in or near Fort Bragg, and midnight to 3am on
105.1fm KMEC-LP in or near Ukiah. And http://knyo.org<http://knyo.org/> everywhere.

     By the way, speaking of censorship, it's coming up on five years
I've been waiting for the people who run KZYX to schedule my show there.
And they still don't pay their airpeople, while they pay just a handful
of people in the office a quarter of a million dollars a year, enough to
entirely fund KNYO for twenty years.


--
Marco McClean
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