[Kzyxtalk] New beginnings at KZYX?

[Marco McClean]

From: Norman de Vall <ndevall at mcn.org>
 > Once again we get another chance to start all over again [at KZYX]. 
So let the new management know your feelings about Public and Community 
Programing with local topics and discussions.


Another chance? The entire structure and culture of KZYX is as 
stultifyingly dead-wrong as when that sleazy rotten rat bastard Sean 
Donovan set it in stone 30 years ago and began kicking the first of us 
out. Sure, it /looks/ like things are changing: They've gone through six 
different managers just since Windows 10 came out, counting interim 
managers --the new one they just brought in will be the seventh (!)-- 
and the new so-called program director, whoever that turns out to be, 
will be the fourth in that same time. The board has entirely turned over 
more than a dozen times. But the handful of people in the office, 
including the /new/ new manager are still sucking out of the station for 
themselves $300,000 a year and then lying that there's no money to pay 
the local airpeople, and disappearing a total of $600,000 a year to run 
a dollar-an-hour transmitter system; and the local airpeople, selected 
for like docile pets in a pet-breeding program, are still so /grateful/ 
to be on the air at all, to not get up on their hind legs and bitch 
about that. The station still gives a huge chunk of the total airtime to 
government radio and other recorded crap from a thousand miles away in 
secret deals (they refuse to show the books, refuse to respond to email, 
refuse to even reveal how much they're paying for individual NPR shows). 
That's the main problem; that will never change. And as a mass the 
nebulous inner block, including big donors to whom $10,000 is a bottle 
of wine for a special occasion, are still Machiavellian, noncreative 
Nice People who like the whole closed cult exactly the way it is.

Look up the Ship of Theseus problem.


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