Jenn Dever Wood
Chief of Staff
City Hall, Room 202
Medford, MA 02155
Dear Ms. Dever Wood:
Thank you for your correspondence dated June 19, 2018 regarding the position of station manager of Medford Community Media.
Please read this letter very carefully.
I respectfully submit that the "requirements for the position" are inadequate and - if Medford City Hall stays on this same path - it will result in another 23 months of "moving forward" as Lisa Evangelista erroneously claimed was happening July 14, 2016 in the MPS Advantage blog
( http://www.mpsadvantage.education/2016/07/14/medfords-cable-access-tv-station-moving-forward/ ) - that fictional idea reiterated by the rudderless Cable Advisory Board June 12, 2018 in the pages of the Medford Transcript
"But the Medford Cable Advisory Board members want the public to know that despite MCM getting off to a slow start, the station is up and running and the board is moving forward." http://medford.wickedlocal.com/news/20180612/despite-lack-of-staff-medford-community-media-hopes-to-make-progress
Joe Viglione is one of the few connecting these dots; is unarguably the only individual steadfast and serious about cable access television and the IMPORTANCE of two key elements to ensure the free speech platform Medford cable subscribers pay for:
---the facilitation of programming
---outreach to the community
Evidence of my legitimate claims regarding access television:
---the failure of manager Steve Klooney and his assistant Alex operating the station in the 1990s. Please ask Solicitor Rumley about their performance.
---after allegedly locking Steve and Alex out of the station - please find out for us why, the replacement, Steve Marra, liberally used the "n" word, the words "fag" and "spade," often belittled anyone within earshot that his religious beliefs were superior to station members, board members, other staffers, and the office often had disgusting odors either from Marra's gluttony (pizza boxes, Chinese food wrappers, stacked in the trash emitting smells; Marra's own poor hygiene horrifying guests entering the station)
---then the loss of 40 Canal Street, allegations that the president of the station exploded at the landlord (the temperamental president of TV3 appears to have installed himself by fraudulently claiming former board members, including his own son who happened to be in Los Angeles, not Medford, had voted him in; the president used monies designated for access to sue this writer, in part for allegations of perjury by filing the fraudulent document. Over One Hundred Thousand Dollars were spent on lawsuits after Mark Rumley failed to take my advice and ensure enough board members could keep the phony "president" from shutting down a city-wide election scheduled for January 2008. Rumley didn't listen, and phoned me after the board meeting that I was right.
That failure by the solicitor to protect the interests of cable TV subscribers cost the city greatly. Frank Pilleri used monies from "MCC" (he was mumbling on the witness stand, embarrassed at having to answer my lawyer's question) - the judge, Timothy Gailey, noting the "assertion of perjury was not proved to be false." In other words, the board of directors led by a phony president had lied under oath.
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Fast forward from 2008 to 2018, Mayor Stephanie Muccini-Burke puts her pal Jay Campbell onto a Cable Advisory Board along with Gabby Follett-Sumney and Yvette Wilks. I respectfully submit that these individuals are as woefully insufficient for this purpose.
My videos of Cable Advisory Board meetings provide evidence that not only is Mr. Campbell unqualified to chair a board, he is also uneducated in the ways of access TV (very much like Anthony Gaimari at Winchester Community Access - a hack hire who would have members "go to Google" because he had no idea what the heck he was doing; no training or experience in access TV, hired only because he's a good "yes" man.)
Anthony Gaimari at WinCAM (paraphrased) "What did you tell the Executive Director about me?"
Joe Viglione: "Anthony, I told him that you aren't ready for prime time."
Anthony Gaimari: "What's prime time"
The station was so angry with me for shining a light on their failings that they changed the by-laws and didn't allow people from outside Winchester to join the station. They even mailed a check for membership back to former city councilor Robert M. Penta with no note that they weren't allowing non-Winchester residents in.
THIS E MAIL IS MOST IMPORTANT, AND IS NOT A JOKE.
As Donald Trump concocts fiction he passes off as fact, Medford Community Media is doing what Medford Community Cablevision, Inc. would do, they just make it up. Jay Campbell on the sinking ship saying "this is so exciting, this is so good, Ben Brown did a great job" (paraphrased) when the reality is that experts on access television in Medford, the "grandfathers of access" - Joe Fortxxxx, Chris Donxxxx, Joe Viglione - all listing Mr. Brown's performance failures.
The result is that there were only 25 members at the station, Brown a disaster at outreach and the facilitation of programming, the two key points needed to have a station blossom.
But what do I know, my first show was in 1979, one of my two directors now in Los Angeles as one of the top executives at HBO. My own experience prior to access, in 1971 when I was Features Editor of the high school newspaper, The Chronicle, meeting the Maysles Brothers (directors of films on The Beatles and The Rolling Stones)
The "issuing authority" at Medford City Hall, from Michael J. McGlynn's decisions over 28 years, and Stephanie Muccini-Burke's ideas for the past few, have been disastrous for the cable subscribers
