MAKING ACCESS TV FUN AND ACCESSIBLE - To Issuing Authority Access TV Is Intentionally Difficult To Keep the Public Funding it OUT

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MAKING ACCESS TV FUN AND ACCESSIBLE

By Joe Viglione, Copyright (C)2020 All rights reserved

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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.