Media Forum

Mendocino County
MEDIA FORUM
OCCASIONAL ON-LINE MAGAZINE

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BREAKING NEWS

Collins Repents
Asks forgiveness
For Anti-Authoritarian Beliefs
- - -
Running for the Board Of KZYX
As "Reformed Moderate"

Reverses stand on Transparency
Read his incredible Open Letter To KZYX
"Transparency Kills"

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BELOW ARE ARCHIVES SINCE 2005
Including the Misadveturers of King Collins
And other Malcontents

At two Mendocino County Community Radio Stations
KZYX and KMEC

With a cast of somewhat colorful local characters
Revealed as they actually are or were

The boredom of these encounters
is sometimes enhanced by photos of the particimpants

and even a couple cartoons to liven things up

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Go ahead, click on the issue to see the story. Issue I features the stunning pamphlet, The Secret Life Of KZYX (by the editor also known as our hero, or our quixotic hero) which for some reason caused a great commotion at the radio station among board and staff. Issue 2 is a bunch of KZYX folks who responded to the pamphlet. And it goes on from there.

ISSUE 1

The Secret Life
of KZYX

ISSUE 2

Responses to
The Secret Life
of KZYX

ISSUE 3

Follow-up at KZYX

ISSUE 4

The MEC and KMEC

ISSUE 5

Follow up
at the MEC and KMEC

ISSUE 6

Alicia Littletree and
Dan Hamburg
Interviews

ISSUE 7

Another Crisis of
Transparency
at KZyX

ISSUE 8

Collins
Transparency Makes
Good Radio

ISSUE 9

Collins
I'm Wrong:
Transparency Is
Too Dangerous

Boring from the Editor as a Stuffy Situationist

THE OBJECTIVE of the Mendocino County Media Forum is to encourage local folks to participate in local media, to promote investigative reporting, and to protect free speech and public disclosure.

The Media Forum was born out of my experience at Mendocino College (1996-99) and my more recent experience as board member at KZYX (2003 - 2005). The first three issues highlight the prospects for community control at KZYX. Issue 4 introduces Gabrielle Welford as coeditor of these pages and Issue 4 and 5 cover developments at Ukiah's new low power FM station, KMEC and at its parent organization, the MEC. Issue 6 features two andid interviews with Alicia Littletree and Dan Hamburg. Issue 7 returns to KZYX reporting sudden changes in management there and an increasingly opaque board. Issue 8 follows Collins as he runs for the board, Spring 2011) on the notion that \"Transparency Makes Good Radio." But a year later, Spring 2012, Collins is running again, this time repenting his sins of anti-authoritarianism in his famous speech "Transparench Kills.".

Your thoughts are welcome. Comment or submit article.

King Collins
king@greenmac.com

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