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Wednesday, April 18, 2018

Replacing Ben Brown at Access TV...that should be easy

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1,182,205 @ 9:37 am 4-18-18

SENT TO INEFFICIENT ISSUING AUTHORITY
STEPHANIE MUCCINI-BURKE  AT 9:25 AM 
THIS MORNING


To The Mayor:

1)Where is the posting for the job of Station Manager at Medford Community Media

2)I, Joseph Viglione, created a company, Community Media Medford, and put in the SOLE bid for the access TV station in Medford
3)I, Joseph Viglione, the most qualified person to be Executive Director in Medford, if hired in 2004/2005, would have made Medford's access one of the finest in the United States of America and there would have been NONE of the problems that we have faced over the past thirteen years, all caused by both individuals - Mayor McGlynn and Mayor Burke - who lack the qualifications to be "issuing authority."

4)The city needs a 501c3 that is professional, not one that does the bidding of a Mayor McGlynn, and certainly not one that will turn a blind eye to Mayor Burke's ineffective way of hijacking the funds for Educational and Governmental access, while denying the public access that they pay for

5)Why am I being so ON POINT about this? Because:

a)the Issuing authority IS the problem with public access in Medford

b)I intend to file an injunction on Mayor Burke and Mark Rumley if they continue their wrongful conduct

for example:

1)the admission of Mark E. Rumley to me that he instituted the incredibly anti-First Amendment "CORI CHECK" - making Mr. Rumley the laughingstock of access television, and making Mr. Rumley a liar vis-a-vis his promise to Judge Jackson-Thompson (retired) are Exhibits A and B.

2)the form to recuse oneself of needing a CORI CHECK makes the individual look like a child rapist.  It is disgusting and is the very flower of the malfeasance - abuse of the access funds to deny the public its free speech rights - prevalent under Mr. Rumley and Mrs. Burke

3)The malevolent forms will be sent to the new Cable Advisory Board

Mrs. Burke fears access television; she loathes it.  This underhanded way of doing business denigrates residents and keeps criticism stifled and limited.

I warned the city that Mrs. Burke was inept and bungling when it came to access TV issues.  The hiring of Benjamin Brown was a joke, a sick joke played on the citizens of Medford.  He was lazy, only did the work when this writer exposed the lack of membership, the lack of people following on Facebook, Ben's lack of courtesy to anyone that he was not beholden to, Ben's disaster of a "grand opening" that he failed to properly advertise, catering to Medford insiders like Richard F. Caraviello, John Falco, Michael Marks, Paul Donato (and the bizarre sex stunt Donato pulled on Michael Marks, caught on camera, in front of two little children and a student running the video camera) Mrs. Burke, Ann Marie Cugno, need I go on?

It was more like a witch's coven or convention rather than the opening of a PUBLIC TV station.

I demand to see the current posting for the position once held (poorly) by Ben Brown

This city needs a passionate citizen who has forgotten more about access TV than anyone reading this will ever learn. 

I started in 1979, you know my work, you know my resume, you know that I can get the job done.

It's time that the Mayor started hiring on MERIT, not because she can control the people willing to do her bidding.

All due respect to Jay Campbell, chairing the advisory committee was a mistake; you had Ben Brown stumbling through every question "duh, duh, duh" (it is ON CAMERA as I taped Facebook live) and Mr. Campbell all over the map, no cohesion, no focus, just rambling because he seems more interested  ALLEGEDLY in promoting his real estate interests than getting this broken community access fixed.  Rumor has it, Mr. Campbell wants a job at Medford City Hall and is a puppet of Mrs. Burke's.

My first job as Executive Director will be to address the Issuing Authority situation, and then the unqualified issuing authority appointing an unqualified chair to the three person cable TV commission.

All due respect to G Follett Sumney on the Advisory Board, but after I interviewed her at the first meeting, her qualifications in access television were not mentioned.   There are hundreds of millions of filmmakers in the world (I have a movie internationally distributed, a documentary on a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame artist which demanded sensitive contract negotiations with the artist and with the distributor, as well as the set up on the Boston Esplanade, filming and overseeing every detail of the project) but there are few people with access TV experience spanning thirty nine years.

Yvette Wilks is the only qualified person on the cable advisory board.  We need two additional members and a vote to strip the mayor of the title of issuing authority and hand it over to someone in the Administration who isn't one of Mrs. Burke's robots.  If we have to put a new position together and hire a qualified "issuing authority," so be it.  

It would be interesting to see Mrs. Burke cease her polarizing attitude and hire Robert M. Penta for that position, a man who attended access TV meetings, a man who has a vision for access, but why would Mrs. Burke starte being logical and considerate at this point in "the game."

Obviously this e mail is a notice that the city is going to face an injunction for its current ripoff that it is pawning off as access TV

I am demanding the job posting.

Thank you.



Joe Viglione