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----- Original Message -----<br /><div class="replyForwardedMainHeader"><div class="replyForwardedMessageHeaders">From:</div> "Christina Aanestad" <mschristinamarie@netzero.net></div><br /><div class="replyForwardedMessageHeaders">To:</div> nsi@mcn.org<br /><div class="replyForwardedMessageHeaders">Cc:</div> <br /><div class="replyForwardedMessageHeaders">Sent:</div> Wed, 5 Mar 2014 14:27:26 -0800<br /><div class="replyForwardedMessageHeaders">Subject:</div> Re: [Kzyxtalk] [MCN-Discussion]- David Brooksher<br /><div>Hi Beth,</div><div>Feel free to pass this on.</div><div><br /></div><div>I made a verbal complaint against David Steffen for calling me a "bitch" and "uncivilized."  His main concern was that I didn't smile at him in the mornings when he came in.  </div><div><br /></div><div>I called John Coate and told him that David called me a bitch.  John's first response to ask me what I did.  I said I called David a sexist pig and told him he couldn't talk to me like that at work-it created a hostile work environment.  David went on to complain that I was uncivilized, I didn't smile in the mornings…etc.  I told John that David said I didn't smile.  And John Coate then asked me why I didn't smile.  I was shocked.  I then agreed with John that yes, it's nice to smile.  But also noted no one complains when the men don't smile, and also noted that the guys will sit around and BS cussing at each other jokingly, yet I somehow am considered uncivilized?  Their double standards and overall patronizing tone are examples of the kind of treatment I endured while there.</div><div><br /></div><div>As tensions wore on there, I later filed a formal complaint against Paul Hanson, for yelling and being difficult to work with.  He yelled at both Sheila Dawn and myself, but never once raised his voice at the male reporters like Louis Bigfoot or his trusted economic source John Sakowicz.  It was the good ol' boys club.</div><div><br /></div><div>All I can say is that I am far happier and better off working elsewhere, like at KMUD.  The generation gap there is entirely diverse, I'm not the only young adult there, and I believe therefore, am treated with more professional respect. It is a workplace where I can shine with the professional skills I possess and as the unique talented person I am, rather than a workplace that seeks to conform me into some box of what others believe a younger adult woman and journalist should be.  </div><div><br /></div><div>John Coate drew down the debt by negotiating the debt and amount owed to NPR.  That's it for the most part.  My position cut was absorbed by other employee raises and his own over the years.</div><div><br /></div><div>Anyways, I wouldn't work with he or David Steffen if you paid me.  I have no confidence in their leadership or communcation abilities.  John Coate is a good administrator he helped lower the debt- at a cost that created significant schisms within the listenership and Mendocino County community-and those costs were unnecessary had a better leader and communicator been in his position.  That being said, I was unhappy there before he arrived-the problems with David and Paul were there before.  John Coate and I had communication breakdowns too.  He took a very authoritarian approach towards me as if I were a liability instead of an asset and I had difficulty working with him.  He banned me from covering marijuana stories and unfairly judged my work.  I felt his edits to my stories were not in his job description and in some cases leaned towards censorship, which he did not like to hear.  Instead of seeking a mediation he sought to excuse me from KZYX.  But, really, the listeners positive feedback and at times constructive feedback kept me at KZYX far longer than I would have stayed with the existing staff on my own.  </div><div><br /></div><div>David Steffen is a repeat offender of sexual harassment.  He left his position in Point Arena amidst similar allegations-but far worse than mine-and avoided looking at his own sexist disposition by jumping ship and joining KZYX.  Well, wherever you go there you are.  And so I had to be the next recipient of his sexist expectations and harassment.  Now instead of looking earnestly at them, he makes bald face lies to the public that I harassed him.  That's hilarious and disappointing but not surprising based on my experiences with him.</div><div><br /></div><div>I think KZYX needs new blood and a near entire overhaul of employees.</div><div><br /></div><div>Sincerely,</div><div>Christina</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><br /><div><div>On Feb 17, 2014, at 3:15 PM, <a href="mailto:nsi@mcn.org">nsi@mcn.org</a> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" /><blockquote><div><br /><br /><br />
----- Original Message -----<br /><div class="replyForwardedMainHeader"><div class="replyForwardedMessageHeaders">From:</div> "David" <<a href="mailto:uw@kzyx.org">uw@kzyx.org</a>></div><br /><div class="replyForwardedMessageHeaders">To:</div> <<a href="mailto:kzyxtalk@lists.mcn.org">kzyxtalk@lists.mcn.org</a>><br /><div class="replyForwardedMessageHeaders">Cc:</div> <br /><div class="replyForwardedMessageHeaders">Sent:</div> Fri, 14 Feb 2014 12:40:08 -0800<br /><div class="replyForwardedMessageHeaders">Subject:</div> Re: [Kzyxtalk] Fwd: Re: [MCN-Discussion]- David Brooksher<br /><div class="Section1"><p class="MsoNormal"><font color="#000080" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000080;">Once again we have revisionist history at work
here. </span></font></p><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder" /></div><div><font color="#000080" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000080;"></span></font><br class="webkit-block-placeholder" /></div><div>Â <br class="webkit-block-placeholder" /></div><p class="MsoNormal"><font color="#000080" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000080;">I will resist any invitation to go into
the quality of any newsperson’s writing and reading skills or personal agendas.
I will however set the record straight on other issues.</span></font></p><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder" /></div><div><font color="#000080" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000080;"></span></font><br class="webkit-block-placeholder" /></div><div>Â <br class="webkit-block-placeholder" /></div><p class="MsoNormal"><font color="#000080" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000080;">No-one had a plan to raise the $40-50,000
needed to bring on an additional full-time newsperson. Raising $4000 is
laudable but what if there is no additional money? The person is laid off again
6 weeks later? Secondly, the financial health of the station did not improve
the moment lay-offs occurred. The debts were still there.</span></font></p><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder" /></div><div><font color="#000080" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000080;"></span></font><br class="webkit-block-placeholder" /></div><div>Â <br class="webkit-block-placeholder" /></div><p class="MsoNormal"><font color="#000080" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000080;">To my knowledge there was never any
harassment claimed by her toward me. To the contrary, I informed the General
Manager that I refused to have any more one-on-one meetings with the newsperson
due to her harassment of me. I would meet with her ONLY if there was a third
party in the meeting to observe. In addition, I have never spoken with anyone
outside of KZYX about any issues associated with any current or former
employee. Anyone claiming any other knowledge is clearly lying.</span></font></p><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder" /></div><div><font color="#000080" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000080;"></span></font><br class="webkit-block-placeholder" /></div><div> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder" /></div><p class="MsoNormal"><font color="#000080" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000080;">It’s interesting how people who have no
knowledge of any of these events always have something to offer.</span></font></p><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder" /></div><div><font color="#000080" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000080;"></span></font><br class="webkit-block-placeholder" /></div><div>Â <br class="webkit-block-placeholder" /></div>
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Development</span></font><font color="#000080"><span style="color:#000080;"></span></font></p><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder" /></div><p class="MsoNormal"><font color="#000080" face="Bodoni MT Black" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Bodoni MT Black';color:#000080;">(707)
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</div><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;">Re: [MCN-Discussion]- [Kzyxtalk] David Brooksher<br /><br />
Folks: I suggest you all go to the KMUD archives and listen to the 1/2<br />
hour news coordinated by Christina Aanestad on Wednesday February 12.<br />
Most especially you Tim. <br />
It is representative of the possibilities John Coate threw away:<br />
Exquisite sequencing, well trained community corresspondents, a daily<br />
spectrum of Mendocino and HumboldtCounty news. <br /><br />
The email you referenced on the Programmers listserv, TIm (sent when? 2<br />
years ago), was posted by Christina while she still believed John<br />
Coate when he told her his intentions were to hire her back once the<br />
stations finances were improved.<br />
Coate by the way turned down a $4000 (and growing) pledged amount of<br />
money collected on the coast by Meredith Smith in a matter of two<br />
weeks to specifically continue Christina's employment in the new<br />
department.<br />
Such targeted monies have been accepted by the station before. <br />
Coate turned that down! He wanted to be entirely rid of Christina,<br />
but hadn't made that clear to her because he did not want her to go<br />
public (and possibly to court) with the harassment she had suffered<br />
from David Steffen and Paul Hansen.
Harassment about which she had JUST<br />
made a formal complaint to Coate. <br />
Paul Hansen. Remember him. He flees the station roster right after<br />
the AVA learns and publishes that Hansen was involved in some<br />
sort of grift operation at the last station he worked for. And<br />
indicted for. An indictment he had not disclosed on his resume.<br />
Immediately after Paul's departure from KZYX, Christina applied for<br />
the position of News Director. And Coate responds with a terse<br />
content-based turn-down. . . . Then, casually disses her to Doug<br />
McKenty. <br />
Upon first learning (for the first time last month) that her<br />
professional reputation was being openly besmirched by John Coate,<br />
Christina sent an email to Doug expressing her outrage, and includes<br />
a copy of Coate's curt dismissal for all to see for themselves and<br />
judge. Â (She gave us both permission to post it on the discussion<br />
listserv, which I did. )<br />
This goes on and on. And if you want more, I'll do David
Steffen<br />
next.<br />
Tim! Just listen to that newscast so you understand the extent of<br />
Coate's terrible, terrible judgement <br />
"Management"! Is that what you think this is. . . . More
like<br />
living in a FailedState. --beth bosk <br /><br />
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From: "Tim Bray" <br />
To:<br />
Cc:<br />
Sent:Thu, 13 Feb 2014 11:17:22 -0800<br />
Subject:Re: [Kzyxtalk] David Brooksher<br /><br />
In response to Beth's request, I went back and looked at the e-mail <br />
Christina sent to the Programmers list. I don't think it will<br />
violate <br />
any confidence or privacy to share the relevant line to which I<br />
referred <br />
earlier:<br />
"I was laid off not fired. John has done right the right thing in<br />
this <br />
process." [sic]<br /><br />
I wasn't her biggest fan, but she displayed some class in that<br />
period. <br />
That particular e-mail laid out a number of ideas for how KZYX might<br /><br />
survive the financial crisis it was facing, and prosper in the<br />
future; <br />
and several of those have since been followed up by the Board and <br />
management. She did fault the Board for not doing more fundraising, <br />
programmers for not making a clear enough case to listeners for <br />
contributions, and management for not embracing more of her ideas <br />
There was some justification for all of that.<br /><br />
So there's your reality check; and it was Sako who threw her name<br />
around <br />
here.<br /><br />
As for Brooksher, he tried to develop a team of local correspondents<br /><br />
here. I remember a Programmers Meeting when he made exactly that<br />
pitch, <br />
explaining how easy it was to do and that he would train anyone who<br />
was <br />
interested, etc. He got a couple of people to do it - like Louis <br />
Bigfoot - but not enough to make it work. That wasn't management's <br />
fault, or even Dave's, but ours as a community. After Dave left,<br />
John <br />
asked the programmers to pick up some of the slack by covering more<br />
of <br />
the local events and affairs on their shows, and I think some have<br />
done <br />
so. It's too bad they don't seem to be getting any recognition for <br />
that; all anyone wants to talk about is the lack of a half-hour<br />
local <br />
news program.<br /><br />
I may be out of my league, but I am not manufacturing information<br />
(that <br />
might be John S. you're thinking of) and if I am deaf, it is not <br />
intentional. KZYX is far from perfect and I have long been critical<br />
of <br />
many aspects. I think it has improved in many ways since I started <br />
listening; perhaps your opinion differs Since it is a matter of <br />
opinion, neither of us has to be wrong.<br /><br />
Sincerely,<br />
Tim Bray<br /><br />
On 2/11/2014 8:53 PM, <a href="mailto:nsi@mcn.org">nsi@mcn.org</a> [1] wrote:<br />
> This is crap Tim. John Coate didn't "lay off" Christina. That's<br />
just how he couched it when he promised her she'd be rehired as soon as<br />
the finances improved.<br />
> What he really did, was take the first step towards shutting down<br />
the News Department as an independent entity; an entity with the contractual
right to negotiate its budget. And which had control<br />
over the content.<br />
> I'm not even sure now that cancelling the news department and <br />
> replacing it with 5 minutes of press releases and recitation from<br />
the <br />
> Press Democrat was really within his purview. And if so, what a <br />
> mistake. Where was the Board oversight?<br />
> David Brooksher was canned because he resisted Coate's<br />
interference in <br />
> his news gathering, which began to be an appropriately focused <br />
> attention on the struggle over the extension of the Marine<br />
Sanctuary <br />
> zones in our region.<br />
> What David did at KMUD was put together and train a team of local <br />
> correspondents. In other words: Bush Radio.<br />
> --Which is what Christina wanted to do at KZYX/Z. Mary Aigner, in<br />
all the years she has been there, has yet to recruit and train a<br />
bilingual public affairs team And has done nothing to replace the local <br />
 programming we once aired re. Native American culture and issues.<br />
You are out of your league here and either manufacturing information<br />
or intentionally deaf to what went on. And continues.<br />
> As a first step: you need to do a reality check with Christina<br />
before you throw her name around. --beth bosk<br /><br />
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