Monday, May 16, 2016

Dr. Rabies Absurdities in Medford Transcript

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Editor
Medford Transcript
75 Sylvan St., C105,
Danvers, Mass., 01923
Hello Transcript

You published an internet posting from Arthur Alan DeLuca in regards to TV3 where Deluca references my speaking at the council and my proposal to former Mayor McGlynn to operate the access TV station.

1)Had McGlynn allowed this veteran of access TV dating back to 1979 to operate a station, the election of 2015 would have been an opportunity for the candidates and the public to have an exchange that was intentionally denied them.

2)McGlynn and City Hall made demands that infringed on free speech which, ostensibly, is why the other access stations in surrounding cities and towns wouldn't touch the suggestion of operating under a dictatorship.  Indeed, my proposal called for the removal of the title "Issuing Authority" from the mayor as the only way the process could be fair.  McGlynn proved my point by failing to allow any kind of public access, including the Video on Demand offered by Comcast's Project Open Voice

3)Mr Deluca, a board member who has failed to give the public, and the Transcript, meeting minutes and financial records, is not an objective third party.  Why the Transcript continues to publish nonsense from DeLuca (write in candidate for mayor??? in 2013????) - an individual who does not conduct himself properly while walking around the city with a two-wheel shopping cart, poorly dressed with hair that would shock Albert Einstein and the Bride of Frankenstein simultaneously, is the question, isn't it?

Medford Community Cablevision, Inc. claimed it got a clean bill of health from Melanson Heath and Co. PC, auditors, yet that was hardly the case, as the Medford Transcript and other media published in this city,.  Now DeLuca appears to be claiming the AG's Division of Public Charities has given them that same bill of health when the Attorney General's office told me they couldn't speak about the issue as it could impede "law enforcement."     The term "law enforcement" in referenced to Arthur DeLuca and the other 4 board members of TV3 is hardly a "clean bill of health" - but the Transcript seems to want to muddy the waters by not reporting the facts.

Mr. Deluca's rant consumed the majority of the letters to the editor, along with Stephanie Muccini-Burke's thank you note.  Those were the only two letters published in a two dollar newspaper.

Is that really the best way to be serving your advertisers and your readers

Respectfully,

Joe Viglione