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________________________________ Tonight I found our new Medford News Weekly at the variety store under our State Rep Paul Donato's office! next to Citizen's Bank!
And the cover boy is - Paul Donato!
So how did we bring the new Somerville/Medford News Weekly into the fair city after the loss of the Medford Mercury?
Bill Tauro, author of Stealing Somerville, appeared on my television program at WCAT Wakefield, where I was "music director" 20 years ago, in Studio B which is - actually - the room where I edited my VHS-to-VHS program. Bill asked me to write for the Somerville News Weekly so the popular Hotline to the Underground from Musician's Magazine way back in the 1970s was resurrected.
Of course some of us have been chatting about a new paper for Medford and since Bill published an essay of mine years ago I pitched
him to bring a paper to Medford and then to Cambridge. Mr. Tauro liked the idea. His publishing company spent some months rebuilding the site and it went online. Then, after Michael Douglas, Mayor Breanna and Commissioner Ed Davis landed around the corner of my home at the Town/Line - Bingo - our new mayor made the cover of our new paper! With Mr. Bloomberg, Mr. Douglas and my photo of Breanna
paired with Commissioner Davis. This week please pick up a copy with Paul Donato on the cover. See photos of Mr. Donato's office and the variety store under it with Paul's professional smiling face! Good photo ! (attached)
It's been my honor to write for Allison Goldsberry's Inside Medford, The Medford Mercury, The Medford Transcript and a few years back the Medford News Weekly which was a website but not as active as Mr. Tauro has it now. I hope Allison considers writing for the paper about her work at the school or actually anything. I'm happy to see Christine Barber on page 15 this week.
All due respect to the Transcript but a two paper city is more informed. Competition is a good thing. It would be great to see my
interviews with Mr. Tauro (we've taped two programs) airing on Medford Community Media.
On 10-7-98 we interviewed Judy Collins. Ms. Collins is coming to the Chevalier in June and this rare tape is the kind of rarity that can benefit our city. Failure to air my program is a violation of the Comast and Verizon agreements which have anti-censorship clauses.
Mr. Donato was censored by Medford Community Cablevision, Inc. on a couple of occasions and our rep has called political speech
"The most protected right." When a city councilor stomps on my rights, as Adam Knight did on Tuesday at the council - in violation of city council rules, it is a red flag that no matter how hard you work for the community, no matter the kindness you show a Michael Marks in setting him up studio time four years ago in Somerville, in Medford, if you have the skills to interview Director Andrew Heckler, which I did on March 11th, yesterday, or producer Robbie Brenner (Dallas Buyer's Club; head of Mattel Films) on Monday (3/9/2020,) or the biographer of the band The Cars - a few weeks ago, shows on saving cats and dogs, talking to Jon Cena, Michael Moore, members of The Monkees...
good, clean wholesome stuff, you send your membership in to Medford Community Media and you don't even get a response.
I brought a new newspaper to Medford talking it up to Bill Tauro. It just seems the fellow Stephanie Burke hired is envious of what we can accomplish together and doesn't even have the professionalism to respond to a membership application for a 65 year old man.
It's the same elder abuse my close friend Pasqual J. "Pat" Fiorello suffered; the abuse my friend Johnny Byers suffered, the abuse Dr. Bill Wood and Carolyn Rosen suffered, and even Rep Donato finding his programs not airing. I helped Pat find a lawyer and went to court with him when TV3 harassed him; I brought Johnny Byers to Boston to interview the owners of sports teams. This is what I do as a friend, a TV professional and a person in a management position, which I am currently. I have a background clearance check, but would NEVER demand CORI checks of the public to keep people out. The current policies and procedures at MCM are designed to make it a "private, municipal access" - yet the city is fraudulently calling it Public Access. Haven't we been in this Twilight Zone episode before?
If it feels good seeing positive press in a new paper, keep in mind, the man who negotiated for it is the same person who forced McGlynn to shut down TV3. People just don't want someone with a strong work ethic, over forty years experience, and over a thousand television and radio interviews on my resume'.
Ken Krause, the president of the Chevalier Organ Society started yelling at me on Tuesday night, bragging about his program, and calling my desire for 500 members by the end of the years "self serving."
Really?
Unprofessional writer Ken Krause from Cleveland, Ohio yelling at the Medford City Council - actually trying to start a fight with a senior, most inappropriate.
We all know that Adam Knight doesn't have an appropriate bone in his body. Knight was yelling too. Listen to the tape.
What really upsets Ken Krause to the point where he starts yelling, or Patrick Gordon, or Laura Duggan, is that I care about all the citizens and they want to enjoy a private access station...
...my show goes on...heck...thanks to another access station I am a member of, I'm able to do my phone interviews at home now. Saves me hours in travel time.
And Medford misses out on my good, clean, informative positive work.
Why?
Because I exposed 30 of the 116 police officers who are on Marian Ryan's Brady List?
Because I know more about MCC TV3's finances than anyone else in the city save Mark E. Rumley.
So that's why you blacklist someone who only wants to help build community? Really?
For Seventy Thousand Dollars a year you have another naive and not-ready-for-prime time station manager - Pat Gordon - censoring, not having access fully available, Michael Marks who allegedly said "Joe Vig was Right" last council meeting said WITH NO EVIDENCE that the station will "improve."
Really, Michael? No facts, no vision, just another city councilor thinking about himself, not the people coming to him for help.
As Executive Director I would change those policies - and Mr. Marks would know he was correct saying "Joe Vig was right."
You love seeing your faces and text in a new newspaper I brought to town. Think how happy your constituents will be when I bring radio, print, online and on cable a new station that has 2,000 potential citizens signed up as ACTIVE members, not the 81 window dressing names Patrick Gordon lists that include one member listed twice, Gordon himself (as a member? Really?) and politicians...
So where is the public? I'll tell you where the public is - on my phone line and e mail complaining that the access TV station isn't working for them.
Of course it isn't. Ken from Cleveland wants it all for himself...and will disrupt a city council meeting to prove it.
Joe Viglione
Executive Director
Community Media Medford - the sole response to McGlynn's RFP to run the access station.
I can do in my sleep what Patrick Gordon hasn't even learned yet. If you want an adult in the room, you know my name,
you know my number. Welcome to your new newspaper. I can do a lot more than that for Medford...
Stop the censorship of Pat Gordon - it violates the cable provider agreements. A complaint is being filed with the Dept of Telecommunications and Cable on Mr. Gordon's violation of the cable provider agreements. And that's just the start.
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· FILM REVIEW BURDEN
Burden, released on March 6th from Director/Writer Andrew Heckler stars Forest Whitaker and Garrett Hedlund. It will shock you to see a true story from 1996 centered around a Ku Klux Klan museum in Laurens, South Carolina and the preacher who took on the modern day Klan. We spoke with producer Robbie Brenner on March 9th (and will have the interview for you next week) and learned that Heckler started working on this project in 2000, four years after the events that Burden is based upon. Rated R, and coming close to two hours in the theater, the film brings together a difficult-to-recapture mix of violent race relations, a love story and the struggle of moving on from one lifestyle to another. Reverend Kennedy takes as much of a gamble as Klansman Mike Burden, incredible risk setting in motion a series of events that are as thought-provoking as they are compelling. Hedlund captures the individual, Mike Burden, that you meet tucked inside the closing credits – a formerly explosive beast tamed by those helping his evolving personality – his girlfriend, her son and the preacher man. That Heckler, Brenner and all involved let the film sauté over a twenty-year span of time is to their credit. With commendable acting, directing and camera-work that takes the movie home, there are stories within stories given a birds-eye view that will generate conversations. I still can’t grasp that this kind of hate – and compassion – brewed at this level within the past three decades. Like I said…a conversation piece, and worth playing in every high school and college for social studies or whichever discipline can gain an advantage from this remarkably filmed piece of American history.
https://thesomervillenewsweekly.blog/2020/03/10/hotline-to-the-underground-film-music-and-more/
