[Kzyxtalk] the little boys who cry wolf

Sun Jul 10 08:02:18 PDT 2016

smp has topped himself: slandering this 'tim gregory' with the rapsheet of another,
trashing my show, guests, and as usual kzyx's new staff...

what's creepier though is the viciousness of his every post. 'kneepads'?
'piggy-backing' on another lamentable marco screed [public demand for a slot on
kzyx] smp again proves the failure of this list, as yet still unmoderated...

[i used to feel sorry for sako's compulsive need for attention, but now i just
cringe for the embarassment his family must feel for his periodic excess.]

haters will always be lurking--bitterness can linger for generations. what
discussion lists need is simply enforced boundaries--time-outs and if necessary
permanent blocking. even the 'moderators' here seem to be hanging back from
discussion. moderators must choose between being liked and being effective--how's it
going so far, norman?

i expect to appreciate kzyx even after the ax falls on my show. i have nothing to
prove here, nor do i feel need to explain, much less justify, station policy here. i
will not join in 'throwing out the baby with the bathwater'. gen x, millenials--who
knows what 'policies' will guide us next? get involved. the sky has yet to fall.
---

Dear Ms. Woelfle-Erskine,

I'm writing to urge you to _refuse_ Mr. McClean's appeal to get

his lame-ass radio show onto KZYX. Mr. McClean is prompt and

reliable. His radio show is funny and entertaining. It's also

diverse. i.e.; it's nothing that KZYX would be interested in.

What KZYX needs is more programmers in kneepads. Like Tim

Gregory, Bessie Mae Mucho and Jeff Blankfort. People without a

spine. Sycophants.

I see that you're the 'Interim Music Director' at KZYX:

http://www.kzyx.org/index.php/about-us/contact-us

And that you can be reached by email at music (at) kzyx.org.

Let me direct your attention to a positively stellar music

show on KZYX. It's called 'Cardboard Prison Radio'. Where

music can be interrupted at any time by folks like 'Zebra'.

For a core dump of whatever's on his mind. If you suffer

from insomnia, this is the show for you. It starts at 11pm

every Wednesday. The host is Tim Gregory. He stops by here

every now and again. Using language prohibited by KZYX

policy. Ranting and raving at anyone offering facts about

KZYX and his absolutely superior radio show. And your

absolutely superior management skills. Speaking of which.

I see that you're a coordinator at Anderson Valley Junior

High School:

http://www.mcoe.us/District/Department/37-Child-Development-and-Youth-Integrated-Services/Portal/ASES-KUDOS

At alice (at) avpanthers.org. Is that correct? If so, how

did you make the jump to 'music director' at KZYX? How were

you dressed at your interview? What color kneepads did you

wear? I didn't see your resume on Linkedin:

https://www.linkedin.com

Did I miss something? It's pretty easy to find people and

their work histories there. Especially those with hyphenated

last names. Like yours. That's okay. I'll be happy to start

a work history for you. As 'music director' at KZYX. With

programmers like Mr. Gregory. And topnotch radio programs

like 'Cardboard Prison Radio'. Featuring topnotch guests.

Like 'Zebra'. With his riveting contributions.

You don't want Mr. McClean's radio show. No way. He's got

actual underwriters. Ick! You want shows like Cardboard Prison

Radio. With 'Zebra'. Yeah, baby. That's what _I'm_ talking'

about. Prison.

Speaking of which. Have you looked Marco McClean's name up?

At the local courthouse? Give it a whirl here:

http://www.mendocino.courts.ca.gov/online_services/caseindex/data/M.pdf

See anything? I didn't. How boring! Now look up Mr. Gregory's

name:

http://www.mendocino.courts.ca.gov/online_services/caseindex/data/G.pdf

You'll find thirteen cases under that name. All of them as a

defendant. All criminal. One of them as a 'person restrained'.

Here's the good news, Ms. Wolfle-Erskine. Look up 'Zebra' here:

http://www.mendocino.courts.ca.gov/online_services/caseindex/data/Z.pdf

Or 'Mucho' here:

http://www.mendocino.courts.ca.gov/online_services/caseindex/data/M.pdf

Or 'Blankfort' here:

http://www.mendocino.courts.ca.gov/online_services/caseindex/data/B.pdf

Clean as a whistle. So you've got no problems, do you? Except

for Mr. Gregory. And thirteen criminal cases under his name.

And that little old restraining order. That surely wasn't

him. But somebody using his name. In Willits. Where Mr.

Gregory broadcasts his 'Cardboard Prison Radio' show. But

I'm sure you knew that. Because you're the music director,

aren't you? Like I said. His show is absolutely superior.

And you're the person in charge. With stylish kneepads.

But it'd be better to actually _reject_ Mr. McClean, right?

With an actual email -- if you can write. Or a telephone

call -- if you can talk. You're a 'coordinator' aren't you.

Then why not coordinate a rejection? With Mr. Gregory? He

can post it right here. Along with blue language. No facts.

And his buddy 'Zebra'.

Do you have a spine, Ms. Wolfle-Erskine? If so, then why

not pull the trigger? Throw Mr. McClean out on the street.

Where he belongs. And stand behind your champion. Mr. Tim

Gregory. Of 'Cardboard Prison Radio'. Publicly. You're in

the radio business, Ms. Wolfle-Erskine. Aren't you?

And while you're at it. Write a glowing testimonial for

Mr. Gregory. About how cool his show is. And how many of

them he's done. Mr. McClean has done nearly 1,000. I'm

sure that Mr. Gregory has done more. So be sure not to

leave that part out.

Also. Give Mr. Gregory a better time slot. I'm sure you

can do better than 11pm on Wednesdays. How about 10am

on Fridays? Or maybe not. That's Stuart Campbell's slot.

Your treasurer. And Bob Boshansky's slot. Your president's

boyfriend. Maybe not there either.

Bessie Mae Mucho is onboard. Maybe she'll give it up. Or

Jeff Blankfort. He's down with whatever. Maybe he'll give

it up. If not, try ditching NPR. Or Democracy Now! They'll

certainly yield to icons like Mr. Gregory. And 'Zebra'.

Have you spoken with your predecessor, Ms. Wolfle-Erskine?

That's Raoul vanHall. A thirty-year radio veteran. Who

left over the 'cronyism' and 'nastiness' at KZYX. You

can reach him here: raoulradio (at) gmail.com. I'm sure

he can tell you more. Especially how bad Marco McClean's

radio show is. And how good Tim Gregory's radio show is.

Sincerely,

Scott M. Peterson

Mendocino

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> To: Alice Woelfle-Erskine, program director, KZYX

cc: to MCPB board <BOD at kzyx.org<http://lists.mcn.org/mailman/listinfo/kzyxtalk>>,
kzyxtalk at lists.mcn.org<http://lists.mcn.org/mailman/listinfo/kzyxtalk>, editor at
theava.com<http://lists.mcn.org/mailman/listinfo/kzyxtalk>

Dear Alice Woelfle-Erskine:

I have been working hard for real media (radio, teevee, print
publishing) in this county for over thirty years. In addition to my day jobs
--construction and theatrical work and maintenance and electronics, and so on-- I
put twenty-plus hours into getting my show together and then do my show live every
week on KNYO and KMEC, and before that I worked at KMFB for almost fifteen years
--maintenance and repair and solving problems as well as doing my weekly all-night
show there, which, by the way, had no trouble paying its own way /and/ paying me. I
have never missed an airdate, nor caused a single legal problem for a station
manager or with the FCC. I'm that reliable at what I do, and that
experienced, and that proven. And I've been waiting for four-and-a-half years for my
show to be scheduled on KZYX, where it will be one of the best shows there, and will
fit KZYX' educational-band community
broadcasting mission like a glove.

Months ago Lorraine Dechter told me that things at KZYX are different now from the
bad old days, and she gave me to understand that all the people frustrated by the
tone-deaf insular paranoid management of the past will finally get a fair shake. She
told me to send a show proposal to then-brand-new program director, Raoul van Hall.
I did that, and I wrote Raoul every week about it, providing explanations and links
to samples of my work, and he never wrote nor called back. Then he vanished and
somehow you became the program director, Alice. I wrote you. You took weeks to write
back and then told me that my show sounded cool and that there's a new process for
scheduling shows on KZYX. I wrote to ask you to describe that process and tell me
the names and contact info of the people involved in it, so I can push it forward.
That was a month ago. I've heard nothing from you since.

So I'm telling you now: pretend that I'm a paying member and so part owner of
so-called Mendocino County Public Broadcasting Corporation, which I actually am, and
I'm a taxpayer, one of the many whose federal tax money has been going to bail out
KZYX to keep it from failing every year of its existence including this year --and
that's another fact: without the tax-derived CPB grant, KZYX would have been six
figures into the red every single year since 1989; it started out that badly
managed, and nothing has changed in that regard; the budget for the current year is
as absurdly high as last year's and every year's (at least six times what it should
cost)-- but further, and imaginatively, Alice, pretend that I'm one of the secret
wealthy persons who step in to make up the difference when the pledge drive is
failing, so the station always has /just enough/ money to pay just the manager
$5,000 a month (!), where the local airpeople on KZYX are paid nothing (!), while
recorded and syndicated NPR shows are all paid enough for every one of their show
people to eat steak and take summers off while they save for a year or two to buy a
big fine house with cash. (Speaking of which, the MCPB budget has been hovering
around $600,000. That's enough to pay cash for another brand-new pretty nice house
on its own acre of land every year, when the total drain of running all three
transmitters and all the equipment in all the studios and all the tower fees and
publishers' fees and internet, phones and overhead and pencils and bottled water
should come to less than $10 an hour --around $80,000 a year-- at the absolute
outside, just to give you some perspective, and I'm including this section because
I'm copying this to the board, so they know everyone knows all this when they trot
out, with a row of straight faces, another faked-up $600,000 budget to, you know,
keep a couple of computers and transmitters switched on and a microphone plugged
in.)

In short, Alice, get moving on scheduling my show on KZYX. Because I and my show are
worth it, it will improve the station, and I waited
patiently in line for years, and lately I have been extremely patiently waiting at
the head of the line while other less worthy people are ushered in past me with nary
a glance in my direction. Think of the matter in IT terms: consider this a simple
repair ticket that's been deliberately ignored by your service department for years.
I know you've only been program director for a few months, and of course you have
other things to think about, but given the history and the facts and the ridiculous
length of the delay anyone with any integrity would make this a top priority. In the
real world you would, and from what I've heard about you I hope you will.

You can start by simply telling me (and my listeners and readers) what steps you've
taken so far to schedule my show on KZYX. If you've done nothing, pick an entry
point and start now. And describe the "new
process" you mentioned, and tell me the names and personal contact information of
all the people involved in that process. So I'm not writing this same letter every
week for the /next/ five years, to
whoever comes after you, and whoever comes after that, and after that. Please.

--
Marco McClean
memo at mcn.org<http://lists.mcn.org/mailman/listinfo/kzyxtalk>
http://MemoOfTheAir.wordpress.com<http://memooftheair.wordpress.com/>
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