[Kzyxtalk] Fwd: Apropos of this Tim Gregory brouhaha: typo correctedt.

[Tim Gregory]

Since you continue to drag me into your bullshit brou-ha-ha, john, I'll make further
observation:

What the remaining kzyx listeners on this list can see below is js's true vision of
the future for community radio. Ask yourselves, cui bono?
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From: "John Sakowicz" <sako4 at comcast.net>
To: "kzyxtalk" <kzyxtalk at lists.mcn.org>
Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2017 11:58:48 AM
Subject: Re: [Kzyxtalk] Apropos of this Tim Gregory brouhaha: a blast from the past.

This is so well-written, Marco, and the argument is so well-reasoned.

I said it during the candidates forum on-air on March 15, and I'll say it again: If
by some miracle I were to get my show back at KZYX, I'd gladly give that slot on the
schedule to you. You do up to five hours of radio in a single show, and you hold my
interest for that entire time. Your shows are, by turns, informative and
entertaining. Some are darkly funny. More than a few are classics.

Continue to build your digital platform for your show, Marco. KZYX is an
anachronism. Live broadcasts isn't where it's at. On-demand online media is where
it's at. On-demand mobile media. is where it's at. Podcasts, Marco. Podcasts. And
webstreams. Start a Youtube channel, too. Fold in some video with the audio.







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From: "Marco McClean" <memo at mcn.org>
To: "kzyxtalk" <kzyxtalk at lists.mcn.org>, "discussion lists"
<discussion at lists.mcn.org>
Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2017 12:35:28 AM
Subject: [Kzyxtalk] Apropos of this Tim Gregory brouhaha: a blast from the past.


(from the Anderson Valley Advertiser, Feb. 1, 2016:)

Subject: Tim Gregory, ladies and gentlemen.

Tim Gregory wrote: “Self-destructive souls are the hardest to
understand...they go down to the crossroads again and again, and wonder why they
keep getting run over. Without any real base on the board, or within the
organization for that matter, js [John Sakowicz] will mewl outside the door forever,
as does Marco...civility? No, thanks...team play? As long as they can be captain...
We are bigger and better than this. The board did well to isolate the bull in the
China shop so
far--perhaps now we need help from Humane Society?”

Marco here. Tim, you remind me: I hardly ever listen to KZYX anymore; so much of it
is so dumb, and when I'm not working at my various day and night jobs I'm watching a
film or helping at the theater company or reading and writing and working on my own
show (KNYO and KMEC); even so, whenever I flip through the dial lately and stop on
KZYX I hear
show-ejection-level pottymouth swearing. On Women's Voices, for example, the week
after Xmas: a recorded airheaded Gaia-worshiping
feminine-mysteries-of-the-universe speech with incidental ejaculations of shit. And
on your show, Tim, a few /fucks/, for good measure. And Saturday night Jan. 23rd, on
somebody's actually pretty good show: the Fish Cheer (F-U-C-K! Fuck! Fuck! Fuck!)
(300,000 people yelling
FUUUUCK!), and immediately after that a Richard Thomson sound-alike calling, in
song, his official enemies motherfuckers. And my attitude about all that is a
philosophical, /So what? Where's the harm?/ Because the FCC has never, I repeat
never, pulled the license of any FM radio station for a few swears here and there,
commercial or noncommercial, small market or large market, even outside of the Safe
Harbor hours, so it's a trick that your self-important masters use to remove from
their presence anyone who will not kowtow properly to their authority and please
them. The bosses are not following the law because it's right or because it's the
law -- really there are a lot of ways in which they don't follow the letter or
spirit of the law; they're just using a scarecrow of the law to enforce their own
arbitrary rule in what they think of as their clubhouse. And you know it.

This was my experience in 1989 at KZYX. Sean Donovan didn't like Mitch Clogg,
because Mitch wouldn't kowtow properly to him. He kicked Mitch off the Environment
Show. I brought Mitch onto my show to talk about it. Next week Sean phoned on the
night of my show and told me I was off the air and out of the station for good,
don't bother driving there. Much later I was told: the official reason I'd been
banned was that weeks before the Mitch offense I'd said the word bullshit at 2am,
and Sean had saved that up against a time of greater need. That's how they do it.
That's how Sean's appointment Mary Aigner got rid of Facilitator 1, the best deejay
KZYX ever had. Mary just didn't like her, so she kicked her out and said it was for
playing a sweary song in the middle of the night. This maneuver is what's called in
the musical world a repeating motif.

But, Tim, you know you'll never be kicked off your show or out of the station,
because you're a true sycophant. The proof: your show is
consistently objectively lousy. You put zero preparation and zero effort into it,
and even your two listener/callers will agree to that. You show up with nothing, no
educational content, nothing of an intellectually stimulating or even poetic nature,
you play some CD sides and mumble the telephone number, and you ID the station.
That's your show, over and over, for decades. Every time I tune to your show and let
it run for awhile, there's little to keep a listener there, least of which your
stoned-sounding breathy mumbling. Rick has an excuse -- he has a
disability -- but he's clever and he prepares from a base of knowing a great deal
about the music his engineer helps him play. Shining through his speech impediment:
he's a musician and a scholar and a talented radioman. You're not. John Sakowicz is
abrasive and mercurial and
sometimes shocking, but his show is doing the work of radio and yours isn't. And
Mary kicked him out because she goaded him into swearing quietly to himself in the
background, not even on a mic, while she was at the mixing board sabotaging his
interview show. And all these years she's been paid for that kind of sabotage, by
the way, almost half the station's entire yearly membership money, a fact never
brought up during the interminable unlistenable poor-sad-twinkly-us pledge drives.
And, while all the office people who don't know jack squat about how to do radio
were and are being paid like little barons and princesses, on a Mendocino scale, the
airpeople are not paid at all, because the bosses have been lying all along that
there is no money to pay people like Rick and Jamie and Verge and so on. And Verge
bailed.

Tim, when you stir yourself to try a little harder and do much better radio than
I've ever heard you do, and you speak up about injustice in terms that are a little
less mushmouthed and are even slightly focused, and /then/ they kick you off the air
and out of the station and they claim it's because you played a song with a swear
word in it, we'll all be interested to see how righteously and civilly you defend
your abusers against all the others who spoke up and were kicked out and locked out.

Speaking of which... Norman, when you go to the station tomorrow to inspect the
records, bring your phone so you can photograph paper
documents, in case they refuse to let you use the copier or
sheet-scanner. And bring a thumb drive, so you can take big files away with you to
examine later. I'm interested in finding out who holds the lease on the studio
building, and to know the details of the lease. And I'd like a breakdown on how much
the different office positions have been paid year by year -- so-called manager and
superfluous program director and beyond-superfluous business underwriting
coordinator and so on, because the pretend reports are not detailed enough. I mean,
I'd really like a clearer idea of where that half a million dollars comes from and
goes every year.

We're all members as well as taxpayers, and so part owners of KZYX, and we have a
right to know all these things and more.

Remember, KMFB was an operation easily as big and busy as KZYX and ran quite well on
about a fourth of that much, and had no government grant and no noncommercial
charity organizational benefits, and everyone at KMFB was paid, including all the
airpeople and, at least in its last twenty years, no-one was fired for playing a
song with a swear in it, and the phone was always live and available, and there was
no
seven-second delay nor panic button, and everyone was comfortable
talking about station business on the air if the matter came up in conversation.

PS. I finally got to see the stop-motion animated film /The Boxtrolls/. I think it
illustrates the situation at KZYX eerily well. And stay through the end credits;
there's a wonderful dialogue between the two street sweepers, where the filmmakers
leave the animator in the frame while the puppets talk about free will and destiny
and all that.

Marco McClean memo at mcn.org

http://MemoOfTheAir.wordpress.com

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