[Kzyxtalk] [MCN-Announce]- Whales tonight

[Marco McClean]

On 6/14/2022 12:12 PM, Robert Spies wrote:
 > Today, Tuesday the 14th of June at 7 PM on KZYX we will be talking 
about Grey Whales.


Marco here. I don't mean to be picky, but they're gray whales, with an 
A. And they're actually mottled with gray patches; it's not someone's 
name, so they don't need to be capitalized except maybe in a title.

Also, congratulations on nine years of your valuable show. Consider 
asking to be paid, not retroactively, of course, that would make 
everyone look silly, but starting now. The handful of people in the 
office who pretend to run KZYX have been paying themselves /hundreds of 
thousands of dollars/ every year, and paying you and like eighty of your 
fellow local airpeople nothing but the opportunity to work to generate 
the money to pay themselves with. /All/ the yearly membership money, 
contrary to pledge drive pitches, goes directly to just the manager's 
and program director's personal bank accounts. None of it goes to pay 
expenses to keep the station on the air. KZYX survives on government 
grants and donor-class largesse, which buys controlling interest in 
what's allowed on the air. So it's not really public radio, is it.

I'm saying this warmly. Really, congrats to you. And get paid, for the 
benefit of all the radio people in the world who /aren't/ independently 
wealthy and who need to be paid. You can tear up the check if you don't 
want it. Or buy the studio a soda fountain, or whatever. Or put it 
toward the new KZYX palace in Ukiah.

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