[Kzyxtalk] from the AVA

[David Gurney]

Why re-post this crap from the AVA?  Bruce Anderson is a sociopathic liar,
a thick-headed moron who can offer no positive insights to the problems at
KZYX.

On Sun, Apr 8, 2018 at 9:37 AM, John Sakowicz <sako4 at comcast.net> wrote:

> ABOUT TIME. KZYX's primary funder, the federal government, is sending an
> auditor to Philo for a close look at the station's books and, by extension,
> station management. Even without an audit, and looking at Mendo Public
> Radio from a distance, which is the only way management allows even its
> membership to look, it's clear that fiscal chicanery is afoot, not to
> mention insider hiring, nepotism, a general manager who is permanently
> unavailable, and the positively weird and comprehensively baleful grip a
> former EST cult partisan presently has on station ops. This guy, Stuart
> Campbell, has direct access to the station's depleted purse and has
> recently hired his girlfriend as a station reporter. The entire apparatus
> curtsies to him.
>
>
> FOR YEARS, KZYX limped along with a series of wacky-to-incompetent
> managers, but then an extremely unpleasant fellow named John Coate assumed
> the reins about ten years ago, and the station's ramshackle
> hippie-dippo-stoner vibe went to cult-secretive and, where women were
> concerned, cruel. One of Coate's first acts was to fire the capable
> reporter Christina Aanestad, and doing it with no notice on a Friday
> morning when Ms. Aanestad arrived for work, replacing her with a stone male
> nutcase who soon claimed that verified charges revealed in the ava (where
> else?) that he'd tried to forge a winning lottery ticket was the work of
> vengeful Oregon "bulldykes.” The bulldykes were stalking him, you see.
> Coate’s unerring bad judgement subsequently saddled the station with the
> creepy EST guy, and here we are with staff taking nearly half the station's
> annual revenue, and membership declining, and the general manager out when
> he’s in, in when he’s out.
>
>
> SUSPICIONS CONFIRMED. It has belatedly occurred to me that Mendocino
> County Public Radio is indeed a cult. The station apparently went clear
> over into blood oaths and midnight dog's blood rituals with former manager
> John Coate, who brought in another eviscerated personality to succeed him
> in Stuart Campbell. Mos def a Moonie-like vibe prevailed during the
> lock-step candidate's affair at Mendo College, what with all these
> blissed-out looking old white guys creeping around in ancient birkenstocks,
> their eyes and speech devoid of all life. I understand a federal
> intervention is scheduled for May, but will it be soon enough to prevent
> Coate and Campbell from moving on to full human sacrifice
>
>
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