Community Media Medford

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   After last night's city council meeting a Medford notable said to me "there should be a five year cooling off period" (before any of the individuals who put color bars up - that was after they replaced your voice with Al Jazeera - get to participate in our access TV again.)

    We cable TV subscribers pay a hefty bill every month, and with documented evidence on City Council meeting DVDs of disruptive behavior, including a long-time president being removed by the police per order of the council president, there is no way the city wants to be potentially liable for more of the same.

   If Mayor McGlynn even wants to entertain the idea of certain individuals who ruined access TV rushing in to ban people, stop elections, not give meeting minutes, say in the weekly paper they want to put all the P/E/G monies into the city's "general fund" the city will be in jeopardy of a lawsuit.

   On August 25, 2011 Medford Commuity Cablevision, Inc.'s alleged "executive director" went to Medford City Hall and wrote - under oath - that the TV station was now doing business as Community Media Medford.  The problem for that individual is that I was informed that the signature on a document of a corporation has to be from a member of the board of directors, not a staff member.  A staff member making a corporate decision does seem to be a little out of the ordinary, and since there are no meeting minutes you can bet someone is scrambling to find a way to come up with paperwork to cover this incident, now that it is known to the victim.    I established a website Community Media Medford before the fling was made at City Hall allegedly by MCC TV3 with the signature of a person the public thought was station manager, but who listed himself as "Executive Director."

   This kind of craziness has gone on in Medford for over two decades. Now we see an individual from the old board of directors posting on Patch that he wants to operate a new station after the old station had failed to facilitate programming, failed to have classes, failed to do outreach to the point where the Mayor and the Budget Director of Medford pulled the funding.
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    We understand the logic behind not wanting new faces, fresh eyes looking at access.  When a new access station is formed and the public sees what they were  missing (and what they would be missing again if the old crew ever got back in power,)  there could be renewed anger against former board members.  When the books and lack of meeting minutes are considered by a new corporation, just as West Medford Hillside Little League had a fresh set of eyes looking at things after - oh so coincidentally - twenty years of one person running the enterprise, it will become obvious that change is imperative.  I'm saying that as nicely as possible.
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     The contradictions by the board member in the middle of a dissolution claiming that at least two ex board members are going to continue the same old same old are chilling, and will be presented to the Issuing Authority who, trust us on this, is NOT going to want to have someone responsible for The Chumley Report sitting on a new board of directors. The City Council will be up in arms, the City Solicitor should be up in arms, and, once again, two individuals who don't have the experience or the knowledge to operate a 501c3 (primary point being to shy away from political speech if enjoying non-profit status) cannot and will not be allowed to open the door for the mistakes of the past to harm the future.

   They can put in a thousand petitions to participate in the new entity. The City Council, the citizens, the cable TV providers (no doubt) and even the Patch won't want to see the feud go on and on and on.

   That's why God made public records requests and the "people's forum." Those two opportunities gave us the information we needed purportedly to force the issuing authority's hand to pull the funding.  The Issuing Authority doesn't need the headache, and he'd be a fool to open himself up to litigation and questions he really doesn't have the time or political capital to field.

   It is over.  We won.  Deal with it.  I created Community Media Medford, and the sincerest form of flattery is that the now dissolving hefore your eyes attempted to hijack my intellectual property.  That isn't their job, and that document and other documents will be waved in front of the Mayor's face if the time comes that certain individuals will try to embarrass themselves again in front of this community.  We are ready and we are not backing down.