[Kzyxtalk] Kzyxtalk Digest, Vol 136, Issue 9

Wed May 28 16:59:17 PDT 2025

Hi Marco,

It looks like the Mutual Admiration Society from Philo has fallen on hard times. Boohoo. Chris Skyhawk is the first rat to leave a sinking ship. LayZYX lived high on the hog for decades. All thanks to Uncle Sugar.

You're right about the epidemic of spinelessness there. It's nothing more than a left-handed version of MAGA. If CPB and NPR get the axe, so will Rich Culbertson and his ilk. Good riddance. What will Mendocino County's darling of public radio be without all that gubmint money?

Couldn't be any worse than it is now.

Best,

Scott M. Peterson
Mendocino

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Today's Topics:

   1. Fwd: [MCN-Announce]- Chris Skyhawk KZYX RESIGNATION letter
      (Marco McClean)

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Message: 1
Date: Mon, 26 May 2025 22:42:57 -0700
From: Marco McClean <memo at mcn.org>
To: kzyxtalk at lists.mcn.org
Cc: themaj at pacific.net, pd at kzyx.org, gm at kzyx.org, bod at kzyx.org
Subject: [Kzyxtalk] Fwd: [MCN-Announce]- Chris Skyhawk KZYX
        RESIGNATION letter
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On 5/26/2025 4:48 PM, Chris Skyhawk wrote:
 > Hello KZYX members and community, this is Chris Skyhawk, I am writing
to inform you of my decision to resign as a KZYX public affairs
programmer, I am very disheartened with the direction the station is
currently taking...

Marco here. Not letting good airpeople with interesting projects use
KZYX for their show, and ignoring them, and kicking people out, and
sabotaging them, and banning them for life simply for not quite being
the right sort of people to suit the politburo of decisionmakers there
did not start five minute ago, Chris. Everyone, you included, Rich C.
included, who's been there for many years looked the other way whenever
it happened, and those I spoke to all nervously said the same thing to
explain their lack of solidarity: "I don't get involved in the office
politics. I just want to do my show." And yez all got to keep doing your
shows, because that was the test. Now you're oldish and tired, and you
don't wanta do your show so much as you used to, you get up on your hind
legs and cry /unfair/. I want to say it's never too late to do the right
thing, but that's not true. Because nobody with any power at KZYX, in
front of or behind the curtain, has ever done the right thing, it was
too late right off the bat. But go ahead, roll another manager just like
all sixteen or twenty previous managers, for something to do with your
fingers. Why not.

A real manager would start by paying the airpeople, even if only a
pittance, a /token/ of respect. And stop lying that the membership money
goes to keep the great shows on the air, when in fact all the membership
dollars go directly into the private bank accounts of two people in the
office suite who are barely interested in doing radio themselves, and
who are so unnecessary to the operation they could just decide not to
come in one day and stay home in bed with their phone off for weeks
before anybody noticed and asked where they were. That's one big
difference between a worker and a so-called manager. If an airperson
misses a single airdate by one minute, that's it. That shows who's
needed and who's not, and who should be fricking paid.

The atmosphere. The fear and tense palpable angst in that place,
whenever I went there. It was like walking into a wall. Can I get an
out-loud amen from others who have felt that.

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Marco McClean, memo at mcn.org, https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmemooftheair.wordpress.com%2F&data=05%7C02%7C%7C35cd46b8569f4cf3e2ca08dd9d50b49e%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C638839692175516942%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=IGR4RPpzcP4v6ChyjgKJszhhIr7ewICO4rGfh%2F82uOs%3D&reserved=0<https://memooftheair.wordpress.com/>

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