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MAKING ACCESS TV FUN AND ACCESSIBLE
By Joe Viglione, Copyright (C)2020 All rights reserved
Article may be quoted with credit to the author
As
Breanna Lungo-Koehn knows full well, no one in Medford has worked as
hard as Joe Viglione to do outreach to the community on the vital
importance of access television.
That's a
requirement that the 501c3 had in its agreement with Medford, yet Mayor
McGlynn allowed the board of directors to ignore its contractual
obligations. Things like "outreach" and
"facilitation of programming," real membership, easy to learn classes, anathema to Medford Community Cablevision, Inc.
So with the help of two other Medford individuals I shut down the old TV3 around October of 2013, seven years ago this month.
Mayor
McGlynn used the law office of the city of Medford to field complaints
...kinda like big business sending you to "legal" because they knew they
were injuring the customer.
Former city solicitor Mark E.
Rumley was only too happy to censor people and squelch free speech, in
violation I believe of his oath of office AND oath as an attorney.
Allegedly.
Mayor Burke kept McGlynn's charade going, per his orders, no doubt in my mind.
Which
brings us to Mayor Lungo-Koehn. MLK (Mayor Lungo Koehn, hardly
Medford's Martin Luther King) puts her head in the sand and ignores what
I have informed her about for,
oh, the past eighteen years.
Her "Sister Act" fools no one, she's a smart attorney who worked hard
to get a law degree, hardly the clueless Sister Mary Patrick from a 1992
Whoopi Goldberg movie that Breanna wants you to think that she is,
As
"Issuing Authority" in Medford both Verizon and Comcast bend over
backwards for her. Heck, in the pre-Verizon days, Comcast would give
McGlynn the monies for his lighting of the Christmas tree as well as
his golf tournaments, but how many of you knew that?
Access
television should be fun and easy. Problem is, people in communities
like Malden, Winchester, Somerville use the community swimming pool like
their own little fiefdom.
Feudal lord Ron Cox in Malden has a
board member arrested on the tarmac of Logan Airport for stalking him
or some alleged nonsense, and a previous stalker on a former board that
I
had to personally get a FOUR YEAR restraining order on for little
things like death threats and showing up at my home. Malden access TV
is a closed club. They don't care if you're
not safe, in
fact, Mr. Cox's bad actions at a party were dangerous. And then a
whacko board member goes and breaks the law at Logan Airport. It's
their special club, isn't it? And anyone questioning their authority is
banned from the airwaves, pure election interference, and as long as
they can procure a paycheck from unsuspecting cable TV subscribers, they
don't give a damn.
JUDGE JACKSON THOMPSON called Medford "Private MCC access."
Anyone
following this in Medford knows that II had to get a legal stay away
order on an access station manager at the now defunct Medford Community
Cablevision, the final manager/harasser at the old TV3. Echoing Joe
Fortunato dubbing TV3 "Private public access," the retired judge said
something similar after she investigated.
Why is access TV sometimes so dangerous and un-fun? The oldest sin in the book: greed.
NO REAL CLASSES IN MEDFORD IN 2019/2020
Pat
Gordon was a decent kid in Malden under Ronny Cox's regime. Now at 70k
a year, he's useful to councilors like Michael Marks but useless to the
rest of the community.
Mr. Gordon can't rally
people for ZOOM classes during COVID 19. He rarely does outreach on
Twitter and there are ridiculously lame "hits" on his - not your -
access TV Video on
Demand.
Gordon gets angry at me for
stating the obvious rather than him doing a good job. And Mayor Breanna
throws rose petals outside her window, figuratively, ignoring the chaos like the ex TV 3 President whining "Say something nice about TV3."
Well, here's the good news.
This
veteran of access TV, who started in 1979, can put easier to learn
programs like iMovie front and center, not complex Adobe Premiere and
Final Cut Pro. Those advance classes are for the people who are truly
passionate about access.
TV 3 Medford had no HOTSET (Host operated set) until I demanded it at city council meetings
No
one teaches fundamentals of easy free speech, having fun at access TV
and opening the floodgates for people to speak at election time.
What?
You think George Scarpelli wants you to read the court case he was a
defendant in, those hazings out in Otis, Massachusetts?
You think Adam Knight wants his lack of diction and lunacy posted on public access to expose him to the entire community?
Rick
Caraviello is an angry guy. That is one individual who should NOT be
on a city council, and by DENYING access to the masses, people don't see
his tons of corporations
and questions about his integrity, or lack thereof.
Yes,
access that you pay for can be easy-to-learn, fun and can benefit the
city, filling the library shelves with historic tapes of Medford
Massachusetts
Those tapes do not exist...and the
issuing authority, Breanna Lungo-Koehn, must be held responsible for
DENYING Medford citizens their right to be on TV.
They
do NOT want you at the city council on television, these gluttonous
elected officials do NOT want any residents getting ANY traction to run
for elected office.
When you want change, give
me a call. If you want to get ripped off by the likes of Caraviello,
Marks, Scarpelli, Knight, LLC, well, now that you have been advised,
you can blame yourselves.
I
can install a radio/television station / magazine Media Center
yesterday. My blog gets more hits per day than Patrick Gordon can get
in a month.
But that's Medford's problem, isn't it? If we correct things, citizens have nothing to complain about.
I'm here to help.
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