Friday, July 15, 2016

My Idea for Mobile Programming HIJACKED by Stephanie Muccini Burke!

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764,603 @ 10:22 am

Mark Rumley
City Solicitor
Medford, MA 02155


Dear Mr. Rumley,

I respectfully request that you speak at the City Council on July 19th regarding the meeting minutes and financial records which you demanded MCC TV3 hand over to city hall on or about July 14, 2014.  Two years have elapsed as of yesterday and the extended deadline, if memory serves, was July 24, 2014.

Interesting that Mrs. Burke is implementing "mobile programming"  which I have been demanding at the city council for years now.

Side note: Pat Jehlen is debating Leland Cheung at CCTV Cambridge (where I am a member,) in a joint effort with Somerville Community TV where I was on the board of Boston Free Radio and now am an advisor to the board.  (I actually worked to implement the shut down of the BFR board and help switch it to an advisory role.)  Why do Medford residents pay what JJ McLean called a "second tier tax" via our franchise fee and not have access tv - ever ???    TV3 wasn't access, it was a boy's club with nasty, vicious attacks on senior citizens, women and minority people.   We have every right to be paranoid about our First Amendment rights as city hall, and especially Pat Jehlen - our Senator, have smacked our free speech rights around like the proverbial red-headed step child.

Interesting that we veterans of access TV are being snubbed by city hall.  No one has called me to participate in this venture, yet my start in access was in 1979.  I've forgotten more about access TV than Heidi Riccio or Roy Belson could ever learn; same goes for Mrs. Burke.   The volunteer producers that I know wonder if it will be like the City Council where Fred Dello Russo Jr. slams the gavel to stop people from discussing vitally important issues like the Transition Team (which Dello Russo is on; huge conflict of interest, he should never have censored me two weeks in a row when he's a member of that team.  What is Mr. Dello Russo hiding?) along with "point of information" interruptions which are hardly points, just "momentum breakers" designed to throw a speaker from the public off.  They use those non-points the WRONG way, as a censorship tactic.

38K plus that appears to be missing from MCC TV3 is a LOT of money.

How do we recover it?  And what happened to all the equipment owned by the city from the previous regime, including computer programs and fancy stuff that former staffers and independent contractors might have kept licenses and passwords to for use after the station was shut down?

We have had no accounting from Mayor McGlynn or Mayor Burke and we want answers

This Tuesday, July 19th, is the perfect opportunity for our city solicitor to give us an update on those scoundrels from Medford Community Cablevision, Inc. 2 years after they failed to comply with your demand.

Thank you

Joe Viglione



NO FREE SPEECH; Muccini-Burkie Controlled Access TV

Intentionally Dragging Her Feet is CENSORSHIP. You are NOT on the air now, are you? Pat jehlen on Access TV next Wednesday in Cambridge, it's all about her, not you!

“Beginning in the fall, our goal is to institute mobile programming while the studio construction is underway. In addition, once a Station Manager is hired, we anticipate this individual will be training members of the community on the equipment so that it may be borrowed for community use. We are working with the city to ensure that security matters are fully covered and operational when the studio goes online”, said Riccio in a statement.

“Our collaborative efforts will bring this goal to fruition and we can expect to have regular programming on all local access, government and school stations,” said Mayor Stephanie M. Burke.

http://patch.com/massachusetts/medford/medford-cable-access-moving-forward-city?utm_source=newsletter-daily&utm_medium=email&utm_term=schools&utm_campaign=newsletter&utm_content=article-topstories