[Kzyxtalk] board member response

[Marco McClean]

RE: BOARD MEMBER RESPONSE


Benj Thomas wrote: Marco, you have demanded a response from each board 
member, and I can well believe that some will not reply. I might have 
been one of them, but have decided to say a few words, albeit ones that 
do not address the specifics of your argumentative and hostile letter.


Marco: So, Benj, like Meg, you don't intend to address specifics but 
only to express your beligerence at being told the truth from a point of 
view outside your bubble. That's typical.


BT:  first, your description of events at the last meeting is 
significantly at odds with my perception.


Marco: Again, consider that things might look different to someone not  
in your power or in your clique or in your bubble.


BT: second, your allegations about station management bear little 
resemblance to what I have learned and observed.


Marco:  Read what I wrote. It's all true.


BT: given what I've said above, I don't see any point in trying to 
reconcile what you assert with the realities as I understand them.  It 
may be that some framework for rational discussion between you and 
members of the Board can be found. I think that will depend on how you 
address us in the future.


Marco: Ah, you feel disrespected. Okay, then-- try to think of this from 
my point of view. I've been ignored and dismissed and and ignored some 
more by you people since 1989. I offered my long-running show (KMFB, 
Feb. 1997 to Nov. 2011) as a complete mature package to KZYX four years 
ago and there's been negative action on that score, despite that it's a 
better show than most of what's running on KZYX, including the shows you 
pay thousands of (our) dollars for that come from a thousand miles away, 
and it's a worthwhile show because I put twenty-hours-plus of 
concentrated prep into each one. And I'm qualified to judge what's good 
publishing practice and what's good radio practice. From my point of 
view you people have been kicking me in the face every day for the past 
four years, and you have the God damn gall to lecture me on civility.

    You do not own the frequencies your ossified corporation has been 
squatting on all this time. They are natural resources that belong to 
all of us, paying members or not, even those of us who see and say out 
loud how full of shit you are. You do not deserve the federal money that 
you fritter away with your consistently idiotic management model. When 
even a single person in the entitled politburo of MCBP corp. tells me, 
and makes me believe it, that he'll do everything in his power to 
schedule my excellent show on KZYX, and pushes through to actually get 
the job done, then I'll feel that I've been heard. And when my show is 
on KZYX, I will expect to be paid. There's no excuse for you to pay an 
office full of chair-fillers a quarter of a million dollars a year and 
pay the airpeople /nothing/.

    I'll tell you what-- put me in contact with the new boardmember who 
was all about transparency (for about thirty seconds before yez 
frown-smiled him into silence) at the last board meeting. I'd like to 
have a conversation with him-- you know, give him some information that 
he's not likely to get from any of you.


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