[Kzyxtalk] letter -- management changes at KZYX

[Erif Thunen]

This sounds great!  How do we implement it?

Erif.

On 3/19/2019 11:16 AM, John Sakowicz wrote:
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> To the Editor:
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> I read with great interest that KZYX has hired a new General Manager, 
> Marty Durlin. I also read that the station will be hiring a new 
> Program Director.
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> Let’s hope the new General Manager and Program Director — both — work 
> together in ending KZYX’s long-standing “blacklisted for life” policy.
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> The policy is censorship in its ugliest form. It is oppressive and not 
> in keeping with the mission and values of a truly “public” radio 
> station, not that KZYX ever purported to be truly public. KZYX has 
> been, for many years, a club of insiders.
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> Here’s where the new management of KZYX should start:
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> 1. Marco McClean and his “Memo of the Air” should be on the KZYX 
> schedule. This action should be taken immediately. Mr. McClean 
> produces some of the best and most interesting radio I've heard in my 
> entire life, and he does it for several hours at a stretch. In a four- 
> or five-hour show, I'm never bored.
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> 2. Doug McKenty should host his “Open Lines” show again.
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> 3. Norman de Vall should resume his interviewing candidates running 
> for public office during election season.
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> 4. K.C. Meadows of the Ukiah Daily Journal should have a public 
> affairs show.
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> 5. Bruce Anderson and Mark Scaramella of the Anderson Valley 
> Advertiser should have a public affairs show.
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> 6. Beth Bosk of the New Settler Interview should have a public affairs 
> show.
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> 7. Me? I got tired of waiting. I now host and produce “Heroes and 
> Patriots” out of KMUD, with Mary Massey, formerly of WPLN, Nashville 
> Public Radio. However, it would be nice if KZYX carried the 
> rebroadcast of our show, as some other stations do.
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> At “Heroes and Patriots”, we hope our next two guests will be General 
> Wesley Clark, U.S. Army (retired), former NATO Commander, on Thursday, 
> April 4, and Roger McNamee, Silicon Valley billionaire and author of 
> “Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe”, on Thursday, May 2.
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> Our show airs the first Thursday of every month at 9 am, For listeners 
> out of the broadcast area, we stream live from the web at 
> http://www.kmud.org/ .
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> Please support truly public, community radio at KMUD. We are 
> “neighbors making radio for neighbors”.
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> — John Sakowicz, Ukiah CA
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