[Kzyxtalk] Kzyxtalk Digest, Vol 136, Issue 9

Wed May 28 17:03:54 PDT 2025

Is this a letter to the editor for publication?

On Wed, May 28, 2025, 4:59 PM Scott Peterson <
scottmartinpeterson at hotmail.com> wrote:

> 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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>    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.
>
> --
> Marco McClean, memo at mcn.org,
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