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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>So some on this list serve wish to keep it
going, as in “We need to encourage the Board & Mgmt to Listen to the
membership”.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Which members? This list is a very small
collection (certainly not a verifiable sample or cross-section, and not all are
members) of listeners, of people who advocate for “their way or the
highway”. There are many other members not on this list serve who don’t
agree with them. That’s been plain as day to anyone who’s attended
recent board meetings and heard rational, thoughtful people express support for
what is being done here, countering the emotional dribble coming from the “change
at all costs” few. Thankfully some rational people also offer their
perspective on this list from time to time. But it’s become obvious that
the majority of the usual suspects on this list are a group existing in a
bubble of their own creation. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>They’ve insisted that we must
change. Let me state unequivocally: it is they who must change. Let me be more
direct. If you don’t like the successful turn-around this business known
as KZYX has made during the past 5 years, feel free to advocate for chaos but
don’t tell us that we must return to the mismanagement of the past. Better
yet leave us. Maybe it’s time for you to go away and support only the
stations you hold up as paragons of virtuous public radio and let us spend time
growing this station instead of responding to scurrilous remarks.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Where were these geniuses when the station
was digging itself into debt? Where were their voices when maintenance was
deferred? Where were they when the roof began leaking? Where were these
true-believers when sound verifiable bookkeeping, audits, and sound business
practices were ignored? Some of the loudest voices now were board members,
employees, or programmers back then. But they’ve forgotten the past. They’ve
forgotten their contribution to the chaos, chaos that was not a creation of the
current GM or others here right now. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>The sinking ship we have been righting for
the past 5-6 years was a creation of the sheer neglect by many of the same
people calling for change now. Some of those people have made accusations, repeated
on this list-serve and sometimes published in local print publications without
ever responding directly when called out about their name-calling, lies,
innuendos, and mischaracterizations. I’ve been the subject of some of
this name-calling and even when refuted by me personally or by others who know
the truth, the name calling continues. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>When <st1:City w:st="on">Norman</st1:City>
asks whether the list should continue, I feel obliged to ask, “why the
question now” <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Norman</st1:place></st1:City>?
Where was the question when vitriol and spurious remarks were offered by
Sakowicz or McKenty or Christina, etc., as part of regular attacks on John
Coate, or Mary, or me, or others? Those attacks didn’t seem to raise an
eyebrow then, but when anyone counters the apparent dishonest nature of Mr.
Sakowicz we suddenly need to rethink the continuation of this list-serve? Perhaps
that wasn’t <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Norman</st1:City></st1:place>’s
intention when he raised the question but the timing is curious.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Keep this listserve or get rid of it. I
really don’t care. But while it exists I will not sit idly by and allow
people to attack any one of us. And I expect that at some point, others who
read so much of this garbage will call the authors out as well.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>David<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face="Bodoni MT Black"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Bodoni MT Black";color:navy'>David Steffen</span></font><font
color=navy><span style='color:navy'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face="Bodoni MT Black"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Bodoni MT Black";color:navy'>KZYX Business
Development</span></font><font color=navy><span style='color:navy'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face="Bodoni MT Black"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Bodoni MT Black";color:navy'>(707)
895-2324 office</span></font><font color=navy><span style='color:navy'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Bodoni MT Black";color:navy'>(707)
322-9895 cell</span></font><font color=navy><span style='color:navy'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Bodoni MT Black";color:navy'>(707)
895-2451 fax</span></font><font color=navy><span style='color:navy'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>
kzyxtalk-bounces@lists.mcn.org [mailto:kzyxtalk-bounces@lists.mcn.org] <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>rusert@mcn.org<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Thursday, April 03, 2014
10:12 AM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> Kzyxtalk@lists.mcn.org<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> [Kzyxtalk] Dead List</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Norman</st1:place></st1:City> - this
is the time when the KZYX list will be the MOST important. We need to encourage
the Board & Mgmt to Listen to the membership. <br>
<br>
Thanks, Brent Rusert<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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