[Kzyxtalk] A case of Nutella and a dozen roses.

[Marco McClean]

Norman de Vall wrote:
 >John, I'm sorry you hold such a vengeance. Mary did what she thought 
best. We may have differed. Your diatribe reduces the points with which 
we have differed to a personal dispute. I'm sorry that you haven't 
maintained that our objective, of being back benchers, would be for the 
benefit of the station, its program and listeners. Mary's private life 
has nothing to do with the station. You owe her an apology.


Cindy Swan wrote:
 >Norman, I concur. Casting aspersions at Mary, or anyone! = pure, 
unnecessary vitrol. I, and I suspect many others have (already) made the 
decision to not support the station financially until this type of 
behavior on the part of a Board Member stops... Liz, Sherri, Norman, 
Doug, Marco, Jamie (someone from the coast)? there is currently an 
under-representation of the Coast on the Board. Please, throw one of 
your hats into the ring, and restore civil dialogue to Mendocino County 
Public Radio... P.S. Please, John, buy yourself a bus ticket to 
elsewhere? Because it?s true, some actions ARE unforgivable. Your 
actions do not open doors, they slam them shut.


     Marco here. Norman, you and I and many others did not merely 
"differ with Mary". Mary and the miasmic power structure enabling her 
were actively kicking us all in the stomach every day for years. Kicked 
us off the air, kept us off the air, treated us like shit, treated /you/ 
like shit. That was an ongoing offense in the real world, a personal 
offense in every case. John expressed himself in an email-- maybe a few 
emails over the years, and so what? It's nothing in comparison to what 
she and they threw at him and at all of us from behind their ridiculous 
barricades. If John owes Mary an apology, everyone in the office and on 
the board at KZYX owes John a case of Nutella and a dozen roses.


     And Cindy, civil dialogue, slamming shut doors? Over many of those 
years John was kept ineffective on the board. He'd propose a motion and 
no-one would second it. They ignored him and kept him out of the loop at 
every turn, communicated privately between themselves on board business, 
refuse him information he was entitled do, and so on. He might as well 
have stayed home. If it were you, wouldn't that piss you off? They 
kicked him off the air and out the door out of pure spite. And, Cindy, 
when nothing you said or did within the bounds of civility had any 
effect at all, wouldn't you speak up in disaffected terms? I /hope/ you 
would. Anyway, read again what he wrote; it's not mean at all, and if 
it's true, it's true, and again, so what? I said /good riddance/ about 
Mary months ago when I read of her promised resignation. She'll never be 
truly gone. The organization will stink of her for ages.


     Really, Cindy, imagine me on the board. I'd be treated worse than 
they treated John, and what could I say or do there that would have any 
more effect than what I read on my show or write to the papers?


     I wrote to Lorraine Dechter. I haven't heard back from her yet. The 
fact that she let Mary Aigner, as her last act officially in office, and 
the interim so-called program director, as her first, interfere with 
Barry Vogel's show last week is a bad sign on a new road of signs no 
better than the old road.


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