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PART I
TO: Medford Transcript Advertisers
RE: School Committee and embattled Roy E. Belson
Dear Transcript Advertisers:
The
Medford Transcript is not accurately disseminating information on
embattled school superintendent Roy E. Belson. Allegedly the Medford
Transcript editor, Nell Escobar Coakley, has blurred the lines between
news and political propaganda to protect one of her major advertisers,
the city of Medford.
The
critical role the media plays in keeping government honest is absent in
Medford, and when you read nonsense in the weekly paper like "TV3 has
new home at Medford City Hall" on the front page, and the truth is that
the station put a VCR in a closet at city hall because the troubled
station had problems, purportedly, with the landlord at 40 Canal St,
then your advertising dollars are possibly spent in a place where
readers are turned off from the biased reporting.
You
can spend your advertising dollars anywhere you like, even at the
Medford Transcript. You should just know that Nell Escobar Coakley plays
fast and loose with the truth and that Chuck Goodrich. Publisher & Senior VP at GateHouse Media New England and Sean Burke,
President and Group Publisher of GateHouse Media New England have been alerted to her practices and are aware of Escobar Coakley's wrongful conduct.
President and Group Publisher of GateHouse Media New England have been alerted to her practices and are aware of Escobar Coakley's wrongful conduct.
The
TV3 story was about 13 years ago. It took this writer a few weeks if
not a month to get a correction in the newspaper, yet Coakley never
investigated the alleged clash between the long-time president of the
publicly funded non-profit and the 40 Canal Street owner.
A
sex scandal or two with two different male teachers has allegedly been
covered up by superintendent Belson, members of the Medford School
Committee on that body prior to November 3, 2015, Stephanie
Muccini-Burke when she was director of personnel, former Mayor Michael
J. McGlynn and others, with word on the street that the Transcript, your
weekly newspaper, knew in advance of the alleged scandal and refused to
investigate, allegedly, due to Nell Coakley's rumored allegiance to
McGlynn.
Why
did the Malden Observer run with a huge story on River's Edge where
McGlynn, as head of the MVDC (Mystic Valley Development Commission) and
ostensibly Muccini-Burke as well, lost a lawsuit worth about 4 million
dollars? A huge news story with a small blurb in the Medford Transcript
but nothing like what the Observer ran that I could find:
He said the city of Malden is not responsible for paying the settlement; the Commission, which is an independent political body, will pay out of its assets along with whatever help they can convince the commonwealth to support.
Howard said the project was initially realized with the assistance of the state 15 years ago as a way to clean up the area, so the Commission will seek the state’s financial assistance now.INTENTIONAL absence of reporting is just as bad as slanted reporting, and the allegation here is that your advertising dollars are going towards enabling this bad behavior at a critical time when Medford citizens are petitioning alleged "public servants" for information that these elected officials simply refuse to hand over to the public, even after multiple public records requests
