[Kzyxtalk] The dignity of work.

[Marco McClean]

Subject: The dignity of work.

New CEO Andre of KZYX wrote: “Because all our local music and public 
affairs programming is provided at no cost to KZYX via our amazing team 
of volunteer programmers, and because the only local content KZYX 
produces in-house is the local news, the difficult decision has been 
made to downsize our news structure and lay off KZYX News Director, 
Elise Cox.”

Look, this just means that all along, up to now, the many manager/CEOs 
of KZYX have been easily able to pay at least a pittance to all the 
local airpeople and simply chose not to while pocketing and cashing 
their own $5,000/month salary checks, as the current CEO will continue 
to do, won’t he, no matter what, because he can. See that.

KZYX has, for all the years of its existence, been swimming in rich 
donors’ money and tax-derived money and shenaniganly mismanaging it to 
flush through its system /more than three times what it actually costs 
to maintain the station./ They’ll be fine. But, speaking of news, many 
years ago I suggested just reading the AVA aloud on the air for an hour 
a day, and so cover local, county and world news and culture. When the 
AVA was a paper, that would’ve cost four dollars a month. Now that it’s 
a web publication it’s only two dollars a month. Easy. I’ll pay that 
myself, out of the $1000 a year KZYX will pay me for joining part of my 
live all-Friday-night KNYO and KAKX show, which arrangement can start 
right away with a few mouse clicks of KZYX’s automation techie and 
bookkeeper. I’m ready; I’ve been doing the show on various stations 
since February of 1997 with no reasonable complaints, and I already have 
uses in mind for the money, as I’m sure all the local airpeople at KZYX 
do. A couple of tires, car insurance, groceries, phone/internet access, 
maybe a movie once in awhile, the usual. What people do with money 
they’re paid for their work.

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