[Kzyxtalk] [MCN-Announce]- "Risk being fired?" Re: Tim Bray KZYX statements

[Tim Gregory]

you should not tell me what i am saying, doug, let me do that...

historically the PAC lost any CHANCE of being a real-time community-based input to
programming decisions, when the board decided on the final wording. the PAC was kept
as a sop to community radio-activists like us. it was allowed by staff and those
selected to it to come to nothing. literally.

so listeners continue to get what they deserve handed to them, and members not much
more than that...

an enlightened board [now that sako is well and truly OUT of power] might now find
the way, the right WORDING, to begin to implement what raoul waxed about poetically
when i met him. kzyx as a true conduit of community.

my biggest problem has always been with our 2-ton mission statement--open to wide,
lazy interpretations of what we should be doing/where we should be going...
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Tim,

The policy explicitly states that the committee should strive to work by consensus.

While it allows for the PD to make the final call, there is the option to use the
grievance process should any member (including the PD) takes control and refuses to
honor the consensus.

The point is, the PAC policy isn't being followed. What difference does it make? 
What your saying is, "the PAC has no power so it doesn't matter that it doesn't
exist."

My point is, if the board agreed with you, they should vote to eliminate ate it. 
Why won't they?

If they agree with it, they could also vote to strengthen it.  Why don't they do that?



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> On Jun 1, 2016, at 9:55 AM, Tim Gregory <tgregory at saber.net> wrote: ERRATA
> From: "Doug McKenty" wrote: 'It is unfair that a handful of people have taken over
programming decisions despite board policy requiring a democratic process...This
community should make those people follow board policy in order to democratize the
programming decision making process, so the programming will reflect the needs of
the community.'
> tg-the board policy only mandates community advise--not decide--programming. past
management [and boards] jealously [if not wisely] drew the line on 'community'
decision making.
> sako wrote: 'Programmer-elected Board members don't do shit for KZYX
programmers...we all rather rudely lost our shows when we spoke up against
Coate-Aigner and their self-dealing, cronyism, and dominance of station politics,
finances, and programming...Tim Bray is part of the problem. He should "term
out"'.
> tg--this blowhard is still playing the wounded innocent...there hasn't been a worthy
> cause he hasn't lept in front of, to lead 'us' despite his wounds...to many,
especially j sakowicz, vengence is a virtue.
> elsewhere derek h wrote: 'I believe there most certainly is cronyism at KZYX , and
it's NOT the whistle blowers like John Sakowicz...if anyone speaks out against the
KZYX lockstep hive mind, then they are accused of being associated with John
Sakowicz (as if it's some kind of evil thing), but these are all shallow canards
used to marginalize, and demean, anyone who dares ask important questions, or
speaks
> critically about KZYX, staff, management, or finances. What's really sad here, is
that most folks can't be bothered to see that their Community radio station has
been
> co-opted by those who have been slowly strangling it, and closing it to the wider
voice of the Community, and instead, are vilifying those who are the whistle
blowers.
> With the multiple KZYX members coming forward to point out the serious problems
with KZYX and the MCPB Board, how can anyone honestly believe that all of these
independent whistle blowers are wrong, crazy, hateful, etc., apparently some folks
have lost their ability for critical thinking.'
> tg--derek, my friend, has a blind spot. because geographic cronyism has hurt the
station, he doesn't see the slippery slide of 'siding' with  ALL other critics,
trusting their 'leadership', defending their attempted sabotage. derek [and doug,
for that matter] can't see his own 'cronyism' even as it unfolds...and just as
marco
> blows off the offer of a one-on-one with boardmember j middlebrook, there will
always be this irreconcilable fringe.
> derek is perhaps our hardest working dj/engineer volunteer, and while he has EARNED
> the right to be impatient with mcpb, i dread him stroking out for the wrong
reasons...
> [good sub-hosts are hard to find!]
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