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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'>For the record, first, I’m
officially on my lunch hour, so don’t accuse me of surfing the web or
sending emails on company time. Second, you chose the forum, not me. <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'>Let’s at least be clear, John. Your
constant whining about the paid staff and what they’re paid is tiresome.
As you well know, the station does not divulge personal information about
employees and it does not give out member names, addresses, phone numbers, or email
addresses. <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 aforementioned notwithstanding, in an
effort to dispel the idiotic rumors or innuendoes made by you and others, I decided
to disclose my salary, which I then made public at the May 4<sup>th</sup> KZYX board
meeting. Although you were there and heard me, for those who were not in
attendance, I’m paid about $15 an hour. Not really a living wage but
higher than the <st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">California</st1:place></st1:State>
minimum. But when you factor in the 50-60 hours that I work each week as a
salaried employee (i.e., no overtime), my salary is really about $11 an hour.
Earned in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Mendocino</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">County</st1:PlaceType></st1:place> with poor roads,
high prices, and no decent public transportation.<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'>After I made my salary public at the May 4<sup>th</sup>
board meeting, you cornered me during the post-meeting social time to tell me
you weren’t really talking about me. You wanted to have one of your
patented “Hey Buddy” moments—you know, those moments where
you attempt to make one drop their guard and allow you to play nice. It doesn’t
work that way. Don’t insult someone in public, and then privately tell
them, “well I didn’t mean you….” Don’t pontificate
on these list-serves or elsewhere, and then attempt to cuddle up one-on-one. You
state in this latest email that “And oh, by the way, the folks at KZYX
won't disclose their salaries”. The fact is, as I’ve recounted
above, I did that publicly a month ago, with you in attendance, and here you
are still whining.<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 it comes to the constant barrage of
BS that gets passed around on list-serves and elsewhere, it makes one think of
a scene from the film “Risky Business”: “Sometimes you just
gotta say, ‘What the fuck’”. But not on the air, right John?<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>
<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)
322-9895 cell</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)
895-2451 fax</span></font><font color=navy><span style='color:navy'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;color:navy'> </span></font><o:p></o:p></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>sako4@comcast.net<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, June 03, 2015
10:38 AM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> kzyxtalk<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> [Kzyxtalk] The Big Lie</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>SOMETHING TO KEEP IN MIND WHEN
CONSIDERING TO PLEDGE TO KZYX -- THEY LIE!<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>by John Sakowicz<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>The budget of KZYX is about
$570,350. Meanwhile, the budget at KMEC in Ukiah is something like
$19,000.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>The difference? <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>KMEC is all-volunteer. On the other hand,
KZYX has paid staff that sucks the very life force out of the station. They are
bankrupting KZYX. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>And what is the lie?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>The lie you're being told during the
current pledge drive is that local programmers at KZYX need that $570,350 to
stay on the air. It's a lie. A big fat lie! The programmers don't need the
money, because they don't get the money. Any money. Zero. Zilch. Nada. They
don't see a cent. Not even gas money. Who gets the money? KZYX staff gets the dough.
Lots of it. $234,502 in salaries and benefits, with another $18,554 thrown in
for taxes.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Don't believe me?
See: http://kzyx.org/Board/MCPB%20FY2015%20Budget%20As%20Passed%207-7-14.pdf<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Think about it.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>We do great radio at KMEC. Maybe even
better than KZYX with their big bucks. Just this week, I did an interview with
Hedrick Smith, who has won two Pulitzer Prizes for news reporting as the <st1:State
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Washington</st1:place></st1:State> bureau chief
at the <em><i><font face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'>New York Times</span></font></i></em>
and three Emmy Awards for documentaries on <em><i><font face=Arial><span
style='font-family:Arial'>Frontline</span></font></i></em> at PBS.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Earlier this year, I've done a series of
interviews with equally well-known and respected whistleblowers: Tom Drake,
Bill Binney, Kirk Wiebe, and Russ Tice at the NSA; Coleen Rowley at the FBI;
Ray McGovern, Mel Goodman, and Patrick Eddington at the CIA; Elizabeth Murray
at the National Security Council; Mathew Fogg at the U.S. Marshall's Service;
and Peter Van Buren and Mathew Hoh at the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">U.S.</st1:place></st1:country-region> Department of State.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>All of these interviews are archived.
Many are posted with video to Youtube. Our Youtube audience is big, and it's
getting bigger every day. Our interview with Ray McGovern has already attracted
over 3,500 viewers<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Soon, these interviews will also be
posted for the widest possible distribution through NPR's Public Radio Exchange
and <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Pacifica</st1:place></st1:City>'s
Radio4All. And the interviews have already attracted attention...national
attention. A major foundation wants to fund a curriculum based on the
interviews for the next generation of whistleblowers in <st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Washington</st1:place></st1:State>. It''s pretty exciting.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Keep in mind that I am one of only 15-20
programmers at KMEC. We all do good programming...really good programming. And
we do it all for about $19,000 a year. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>How do we do it for only $19,000? Because
we're all volunteers. KMEC is truly "community radio", as is also
true for KNYO, where our friend Marco McClean hosts a wonderful show.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>His op-ed is found below.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>The truth?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>KMEC and KNYO are community radio
stations. KZYX is not community radio. KZYX is more accurately described as a
jobs program for the people who work there. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>And oh, by the way, the folks at KZYX
won't disclose their salaries. And that, my friends, is truly pitiful for a
station that purports to call itself "community" or
"public" in any way, shape, or form.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>How do I know all this? Well, I'm not
only a programmer at KMEC, I'm also on the Board at Mendocino County Public
Broadcasting, the parent of KZYX. And I ask questions...questions that you, the
listener, should also be asking during this pledgge drivve.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 color=black face=Helvetica><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black;font-weight:bold'>From:
</span></font></b><font color=black face=Helvetica><span style='font-family:
Helvetica;color:black'>"Marco McClean" <memo@mcn.org><br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To: </span></b>"kzyxtalk"
<kzyxtalk@lists.mcn.org><br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Cc: </span></b>"announce list @
MCN" <announce@lists.mcn.org><br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent: </span></b>Wednesday, June 3, 2015
4:38:35 AM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject: </span></b>[Kzyxtalk] Announcing a
timely point or two about KZYX, or rather MCPB. I've made them before, so I'll
be brief.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black'>(I don't mean to
clutter the Announce list. If you want to discuss this, <br>
please check the address field and follow up in kzyxtalk or Discussion <br>
list or reply directly to me. I'll be happy to read what you have to say <br>
on my radio show on 107.7fm KNYO in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Fort</st1:PlaceType>
<st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Bragg</st1:PlaceName></st1:place>.)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black'>A timely point or
two about KZYX:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black'>When airpeople tell
you in a pledge drive that KZYX needs your money to <br>
keep their shows on the air, they're telling you something that is not <br>
true. They may not realize they're lying-- they may really believe what <br>
they're saying-- but if that's so it's because information has been <br>
deliberately kept from them by very bad managers who have been using them.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face=Helvetica><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black'>The total of all
money required to operate KZYX and "keep the great <br>
shows on the air" never even approaches half the amount in the annual <br>
CPB grant, without which the station would have failed utterly every <br>
year of its existence-- that's how bad the management is. It means: <br>
every dollar pledged or donated or sent in as membership money goes not <br>
to operate or house or improve the station but to enrich a handful of <br>
people at the top. John Coate alone sucks $60,000 out of the station <br>
every year. That's 1,200 fifty-dollar memberships. Mary Aigner and David <br>
Steffen and Rich Culbertson each suck $40,000 out of the station every <br>
year. (I /think/ they do. The financial records which by law should be <br>
readable by any member are obfuscated where they're not withheld, so I <br>
have to estimate.) From what I'm able to glean from the deliberately <br>
confusing financial reports, just Mary, David, Rich and John represent <br>
an ongoing annual $180,000 drain on the station. That's the equivalent <br>
of 3,600 fifty-dollar memberships, where the station only has about <br>
2,000 active members. The solution to this should not be to plead for <br>
ever more money; it should be to spend existing money on the station <br>
itself instead of on the CEO and his cronies.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black'>When I and other
members pointed this out and when I suggested that John <br>
Coate take a voluntary pay cut to solve the signal problems of the <br>
station he's supposed to be managing, we were called /haters who want to <br>
destroy the station/.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face=Helvetica><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black'>And here, I'll just
repeat one paragraph from my latest letter to the <br>
editors of the Anderson Valley Advertiser and the Ukiah Daily Journal:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black'>If the airpeople are
expected to volunteer their time and energy and <br>
talent, why is it beneath John Coate and Mary Aigner and David Steffen <br>
to similarly volunteer? If it's ridiculous to consider even mildly <br>
throttling back on the money diversion that John's and Mary's and <br>
David's salaries represent --which amounts to endlessly hemorrhaging <br>
many times the actual cost of running the station-- how can the board <br>
continue to declare it ridiculous to pay the airpeople a meaningful <br>
stipend for the airpeople's essential work? If the board's reasoning is <br>
that John and Mary and David do better work for being paid, why should <br>
that not apply to the airpeople? They call the airpeople their <br>
"wonderful volunteers" --well, get John and Mary and David to <br>
wonderfully volunteer and they can be wonderful volunteers too, and the <br>
station will have hundreds of thousands of dollars a year to spend and <br>
never have to do another smarmy pledge drive ever again. Think of it: <br>
they could dispense with all their soul-shriveling lying about how much <br>
the station needs pledges and donations "to keep the great shows on the <br>
air." The board could just live and enjoy it and be people and do their <br>
own unique shows, if they're the sort of people who want to do radio and <br>
lift people up to do radio and give people access to the tools to do <br>
radio and then step out of their way, and if they're not, why are they <br>
on the board of a community radio station?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face=Helvetica><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black'>The people who are
really hating are not the ones who point out true <br>
things like this, they're the bad managers and the board of directors <br>
who enable the bad managers. And the currently suspended broadcast <br>
license is not the fault of the members who complained to the FCC in an <br>
effort to shake some sense into the board to either rein in the bad <br>
managers or replace them with good ones; it's the fault of the enabling <br>
directors on the board and the bad and/or greedy and/or incompetent <br>
managers they enable.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black'>The apparent opinion
of the board's Locutus (Stuart Campbell) --that <br>
KZYX is such a vast and complicated operation that it requires a <br>
well-paid tyrannical bureaucratic cabal to make the trains run on time-- <br>
is clearly not true. Other community radio stations live quite well on a <br>
tenth the money KZYX wastes (!) and they make improvements, and their <br>
airpeople show up to functioning studios and do their shows. And when <br>
things break they get fixed, and when electrical problems arise they get <br>
dealt with, and their finances and operation are transparent and the FCC <br>
doesn't yank their license.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face=Helvetica><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black'>Marco McClean<br>
memo@mcn.org<br>
http://MemoOfTheAir.wordpress.com<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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