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November 20, 2014 --- sound familiar?
Jackass Arthur Deluca and his new friend,
the disgraced Julie the Jarhead, make these same crackpot excuses while 33 Thousand Dollars or A LOT MORE remains unaccounted for.
When funding for public access TV was drastically cut in 2001,
Columbus Mayor Michael Coleman told The Other Paper that the action was
not taken as a reaction to the station’s program content but because of
“a lack of money.”
In response to questions about public access TV in 2006, Mike Brown
in the mayor’s office likewise explained that the city “faced
significant budget challenges during the recession of the early 2000s,
and that led to significant reductions to . . . public financing for
Public Access Television.” But he said the mayor supported “the concept”
of public access TV.
The approval by Columbus voters of a 25 percent incometax increase
in 2009 and the resulting budget surpluses took away the “lack of money”
explanation. The restoration of public access TV could therefore have
been expected. But city officials didn’t do it.
http://freepress.org/article/censorship-was-real-reason-columbus-city-officials-ended-public-access-tv