<html><body><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div>Oh God! This "SM" person sounds suspiciously like Stuart Campbell...lecturing tone and superiority complex and all.</div><div><br></div><hr id="zwchr"><div style="color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"><b>From: </b>"smmail" <smmail@gotsky.com><br><b>To: </b>"kzyxtalk" <kzyxtalk@lists.mcn.org><br><b>Sent: </b>Wednesday, June 1, 2016 4:15:22 PM<br><b>Subject: </b>[Kzyxtalk] For Doug McKenty<br><div><br></div>Doug McKenty, my understanding of what you are complaining about <br>regarding KZYX is that you think that changes in station management <br>caused a loss of members. You have claimed that there are a thousand <br>folks out there who would pay their dues if the more recent changes in <br>programming and administration were reversed. For the sake of argument, <br>I claim that your group is in the tens of listeners, not a thousand. So, <br>now we have a disagreement about an unknown fact. We could yak about <br>this forever. In actual fact, the Board, staff, and programmers would <br>all try to accommodate a verified large group of listeners. Verified.<br><div><br></div>If you want to support your contention, you have to come up with the <br>thousand listeners. You are not going to find proof of dissatisfaction <br>and loss of membership in the back rooms of the Philo studio. I can’t <br>even imagine how this could be done reliably. Your enthusiasm for <br>finding this info at the station is rightfully regarded by the Board, <br>station personnel and, probably all of the programmers as harassment. <br>Bad move.<br><div><br></div>What you need to do is to gather up your dissatisfied group because one <br>thousand is considerably more than the number of members who actually <br>vote on a Board election. You could take over an election. You don’t <br>need any information from the station to do this. This is Mendocino <br>County where advocacy is rampant. You have recent experience with the <br>Charter County question. You must know some of the group that you wish <br>to organize, and you could get them to help. Make a few handbills. <br>Advertise a meeting, and then build. All of this fumbling around about <br>what is fair or legal or transparent or democratic is just dumb because <br>these concepts are quite variable in the context of the operation of a <br>real organization.<br><div><br></div>I hope you understand the reality of what I am saying, but here is some <br>further advice if you wish to be successful. Distance yourself from the <br>dissatisfied and noisy minority here at KZYXtalk. They all appear to be <br>playing a very different game that you are. If you advertised a meeting <br>about the future of community radio and said that John, Sheila, Scott, <br>King, Norman, Richard, and Jeff (and I am forgetting a few) were part of <br>your junta there would be people in attendance with vigorous opposing <br>views. The reality you have to deal with is that two thirds of the <br>membership don’t even vote on Board elections. Well, not exactly. These <br>people vote by plunking down many thousands of dollars for the station. <br>The only interpretation of this behavior is that these folks like what <br>they are getting from the station as it is. If the crew of wreckers, I <br>identified above, got involved, then the great majority of members who <br>are satisfied would wake up. Oops! You have to, at least, appear to be <br>reasonable. SM<br><div><br></div><br><div><br></div>_______________________________________________<br>Kzyxtalk mailing list<br>Kzyxtalk@lists.mcn.org<br>http://lists.mcn.org/mailman/listinfo/kzyxtalk<br></div><div><br></div></div></body></html>