[Kzyxtalk] Chris Skyhawk wrote: here is Rich’s letter... [Rich's letter]

[Marco McClean]

Chris Skyhawk wrote: here is Rich’s letter... [Rich's letter]

Chris, Marco here. Two things. 1. KZYX has been all wrong since the 
beginning, corrupted by money, not paying the airpeople while it's 
swimming in money and clearly able to pay them, and under cryptic, 
unaccountable authoritarian rule boggling in its Kafka-esque treatment 
of anyone falling out of favor with that shadowy amorphous authority. 
Even back in the rosy days when board members were voted in, it was 
under a placebo voting system that resulted in board members with zero 
experience in radio and zero interest in doing radio themselves and zero 
action to improve the situation in any way. None of that started last 
week or last month. That started before the transmitter was even 
switched on in 1989.

2. Here's just one present day example that would have applied any time 
in the last thirty years: This Friday night, as part of my weekly 
all-night show on KNYO, I will be reading on the air, along with dozens 
of stories by local and distant writers, and poetry and science and an 
impressive survey of the liberal arts, the material by Rich Culbertson 
that you forwarded. No-one will ever be reading it on KZYX. Any 
airperson who reads anything like that on KZYX will lose his show in 
retaliation by the poobahs who run the place. Rich Culbertson, after 
decades of working there and then being treated like shit on their 
boot-heel will not be allowed to read his own writing on the air on 
KZYX. Does that seem right to you? If you think I'm wrong about that, 
try it on your show and see what happens.

One more thing to fit into No. 1, above: Chris, every time you do your 
show on KZYX and you don't demand to be paid for your work, while the 
management pays itself handsomely with tax derived dollars and with the 
money your work brings the station, because you're independently wealthy 
or grateful to be on the air at all or whatever reason you do it, you're 
hurting workers everywhere, and you're hurting radio workers in 
particular. You are spitting in our face.

Keep all that in mind when you draft details of the reforms your group 
would like to enact there. All the airpeople can be paid at least a 
pittance, a token of respect. It would take a five-minute phone call 
from the manager to the bookkeeper Any of the, what is it now, eighteen? 
former managers could have made that call. Dina could have made that 
call today. Every minute that goes by and she doesn't make that call, 
she's actively choosing not to. Every ticking second.

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