1,387,930@9:10 am
13,220 for the past month
AS THE CABLE TV PROVIDERS
DONALD TRUMP AND THE FCC
AIM TO REMOVE ACCESS TV
AS WE KNOW IT
A DYSFUNCTIONAL BUNCH OF
YAHOOS ARE GOING TO DESTROY THE ACCESS WORLD
____________________________
IF YOU TRUST ERICA JONES AT
SOMERVILLE MEDIA CENTER
AND THE ACM
AND DAVID GAUTHIER
AT WINCAM AND MASS ACCESS
TO SAVE THE DAY
YOU ARE OUT OF YOUR MINDS!
THIS ACCESS TV VETERAN
SPANNING 40 YEARS
HAS FORGOTTEN MORE THAN
THOSE JOKERS WILL EVER LEARN
ABOUT THE REAL
PUBLIC ACCESS TELEVISION
FREE SPEECH VENUE
THEY WILL BAN YOU OR HARASS YOU
OUT OF JEALOUSY
THEY ARE TERRIFIED OF ANYONE
WHO UNDERSTANDS P/E/G ACCESS
AND THEY LOATHE OUTREACH
THEY DETEST THE 'FACILITATION OF PROGRAMMING"
HERE'S AN IMPORTANT ESSAY,
JUST PART 1 OF MANY
AS WE SCRUTINIZE THE INDIVIDUALS
TAKING A WRECKING BALL
TO P/E/G ACCESS
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A Special Report by Joe Viglione
Access Host Dating Back to 1979
40th Year!
THE PUBLIC ACCESS MANIFESTO!
Photo Copyright(C)2019 Joe Viglione, All Rights Reserved
Ron Cox (left) speaking to host Joe Viglione (right)
Frank Goodhue: "There are no fags here."
I looked at the chick who had a thing for me and she cracked a smile. I had come out to her. She said days later "Oh, he's an old Republican." Tell that to the #MeToo movement.
That was enough for me. "Big" Steve Marra at Medford Community Cablevision, Inc. with his "A fag is a fag, a spade is a spade, an (N WORD) is an (N Word) is pathetic. Steve Marra would push his phony "Born Again Christian" status (in his mind only!) on every member at the station. He was a bigot using Jesus in a bizarre, perverted way. Marra would say "I can sin because I'm saved."
You want your child around such ugly hypocrisy, much of it as sexualized as it is bigoted!
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THE PUBLIC ACCESS MANIFESTO!
Photo Copyright(C)2019 Joe Viglione, All Rights Reserved
For many years, at multiple cable access TV stations, I brought music to Ron Cox - at his request. We were access friends, meaning, our friendship was in the world of access television. We didn't "hang out" after hours, so to speak, we grieved together when our respective partners passed on, we discussed the bad element in access television (best exemplified by the city of Medford,) and (I thought) we were helping the community working together for "the cause."
...Or at least this writer/volunteer was focused on helping the community. So very sad to see Ron Cox is all about Ron Cox and how he can benefit himself, either in his delusional "status" in the community, or monetarily by taking money in salary to allegedly help the community, while putting himself front and center...allegedly. Ron Cox is a very disappointing individual and a good example of why Executive Directors and board members need TERM LIMITS. Another station where I've been a member in good standing for over two decades said that term limits were the best thing that ever happened to them; that they were "just like Medford" (egads) in the early days, and that even losing a great president of the board or directors to term limits was better than the alternative: the Frankie Syndrome of delusions of grandeur in Medford where the self-appointed president thought he would be president for life.
Until he harassed Joe Vig.
Ron Cox, know this. What you did was MORE egregious than Frankie because you posed as my friend. I am COMMITTED to having you REMOVED and hopefully having you COMMITTED. It's in my Top 10 of major goals in life. Just ask Uncle Gene and Uncle Frankie if I'm effective.
You brought this upon yourself by libeling me, Mr. Cox, and keep looking in the mailbox because I'm sure the complaints I'm filing with government agencies (already been to Boston, already explained your wrongful conduct) is just the start. Ask Frankie P. how effective I am, and start looking for a real job, your days of Obie Ron Kenobi are definitely going to be in the rear view mirror sooner or later. You, by hurting honest access volunteers, signed your own fate. Wait for those government letters, they will be arriving soon. And then the lawsuit.
* * * * * * * *
Sad, but not unexpected in the dysfunctional world of public access television, on August 30, 2019 a judge and I both read a libelous piece of literature with the name Ron Cox attached to it. Now why would Mr. Cox libel a loyal "access lieutenant," if you will?
It is obvious to me and will be dealt with in another venue. Forgive me for being coy but keeping one's cards close to the vest is best when legal proceedings are on the horizon.
Mr. Cox is #2 on my list to bring in to "another venue" once I get the suit against the city of Medford rolling. The interesting news for Mr. Cox is that once the city gets the "presentment letter" in Medford*, I have six months with nothing to do but focus on properly and very carefully and very legally exposing Malden Access Television for its myriad flaws.
*It is my understanding that a city can take up to six months to respond to a "presentment letter" prior to a lawsuit.
Now why people tempt fate and risk yours truly employing his investigative prowess into their day-to-day highly questionable activities? Anyone with a brain would stay the fuck away from provoking me. It's been said that I am the NICEST guy in the world, and that I can be as (legally) COMBATIVE as I am nice. Which is probably true. So it is up to YOU if you want to "tempt fate" and provoke a hard working, good Christian man. Jesus knocked tables over for a reason in the temple.
I'm the guy who uses the temple of Public Access properly, helping those unfamiliar with the cable access world to get up to speed. When a Ron Cox or an Erica Jones misbehave, which - regrettably - they do quite often, the Jesus Christ of Access Television, yours truly, very legally knocks the proverbial tables over.
Hard. Just ask retired Judge Marie O. Jackson Thompson.
So given the choice, it is best to work with me than work against me. Of course, the fact that the individuals in question are neanderthals, and that is said logically and objectively, gives you the answer as to why they are so suicidal about their own careers.
Now talk nicely to the nice guy, and those who have, see wonderful programming worth promoting. Be vicious to a good, kind, wonderful human being like myself, we'll educate you in the ways of the law, with or without an attorney, and it will identify your wrongful conduct and delight me to be able to help the public by cleaning up a public mess.
THINK MEDFORD and how I shut down TV3 if you are in the mood to tempt fate my darlings! It was ugly, and we got the job done. Very legally, I might add.
Johnny Byers said that Dr. Fleabag, as I like to call him, Arthur Alan Deluca, called me "deadly" when it comes to cleaning up access issues. If so, it is the most appropriate thing that dimwit has ever uttered.
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If "Masochistic Ronny" wants to join the long line of reprobates that have - how do we politely say this - "been unkind" to me, we can ask Mayor McGlynn how it felt when I had former Governor Deval Patrick remove his uncle from the board of the Medford Housing Authority; why disgraced "Uncle Bob" Maiocco is no longer primping his perpetually balding pate at the Medford City Council after his home made movie "B.M.'s Adventures at Wells Fargo," or my dear, dear friend Solicitor Mark Rumley what it was like having a judge remove him from a witness stand for being "irrelevant." Oh, so sorry, Mark. The judge called your TESTIMONY irrelevant. It is I who think you are also IRRELEVANT. Thank you for allowing me to clear that up!
THE RONNY COX STORY*
*We're not talking about the excellent actor from Total Recall in case you are wondering.
The person in question is the self-serving public access version
Let's start with the basics. Walk into the long-time Executive Director of MATV's sloppy, messy office and compare it to a photo of Hiroshima.
Public Domain photo of metaphor for Ron Cox's desk at MATV, Hiroshima after the Atomic blast!
How can a professional work in such a bizarre pile of paper and tapes and lunacy? Is that really what you want for your kids? To participate at a studio where the E.D. appears to be as lazy as he is ssssssooooooo unsystematic? Careless as all get out!
________________________________________________
TIME OUT:
Now you may be asking yourself - "Joe, if you participate in the world of public access television, wouldn't it be more efficient to mediate?
Joe Viglione answers: If this producer/host is as "logical" as Judge LaMothe proclaimed in court that I am, time is better spent building a business plan for a national TV show, not messing around with ignorant, full-of-themselves no-talents like David Gauthier, Melodie Wing, Allan Eyden over at WinCAM, or nutcases like Erica Jones and Heather Mack over at Somerville Media Center. I gave my notice for "sabbatical" over at Somerville after a wonderful interview, my final show at the station, where I got a creepy text from a host that borders on the lazy side looking to interview my guest. Notice also that they never pitch in to help you do YOUR show, they ask YOU to pitch in and help them. Leave It to Beaver and Eddie Haskell, indeed!
No quid pro quo.
Dear Heather has a history of being rather loud and obnoxious at other places, it is alleged, but Erica is just completely out to lunch. It is NOT a good working environment when a Brian Zipp or an Erica Jones behave like David Gauthier: low self-image because they are in over their head. Their lack of self-esteem causes them to try to build themselves up by belittling others. A toxic prescription for unsuspecting cable TV subscribers who don't get what they are paying for.
_____________________________
PLEASE NOTE:
THERE ARE MANY, MANY ACCESS PRODUCERS OUTRAGED BY THE CONDUCT. WE SPEAK QUIETLY ON THE ACCESS TV GRAPEVINE, BUT THE COMPLAINTS OUT THERE AGAINST THE PEOPLE MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE ARE MANY.
NOT JUST COMING FROM THIS REPORTER. PROBLEM IS, PEOPLE DO NOT WANT TO BE RETALIATED AGAINST THE WAY MEDFORD EXACTS RETALIATION ON ANYONE WHO SPEAKS OUT AGAINST THE POWERS THAT BE.
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BOSTON FREE RADIO, SOMERVILLE MEDIA CENTER:
When I was voted on the quasi "board of directors" of Boston Free Radio - along with Rachel Tanenhaus - God bless her, she's now the E.D. of Cambridge Commission for Persons with Disabilities https://www.finditcambridge.org/organization/cambridge-commission-persons-disabilities-ccpd - and, look, I sincerely congratulate her for landing on her feet. I personally found Rachel to be lazy, full of herself, and associating herself with the wrong people. People in the "disability" world who give it a bad name. Angry, hurtful people who lash out at anyone who wants to help them.
After I had to file an OPEN MEETING LAW grievance against Rachel Tanenhaus (and Neil Osborne) at Medford City Hall, the authorities finding that Tanenhaus (and by extension, Attorney Osborne) DID violate the Open Meeting Law, it is clear evidence that Rachel Tanenhaus gives lip service on free speech, but doesn't want YOU to have that same right. She's an "authority" freak, she wants to be in a position of power to bully you, as she attempted to bully me. Well, she lost her case because of her bullying.
I must also add, Rachel Tanenhaus was nothing but lazy on our board of directors at BFR. One evening I gave her and her doggy a ride home to Medford. A friend of mine admonished me for my act of kindness and said "You're too kind. Don't EVER offer to drive a woman home in this day and age. They can make up any accusation against you." (paraphrased.) Silly me. When I wanted to Facebook live the Disability Commission Open Meeting Rachel Tanenhaus DENIED me that right. And she sat on a board of Boston FREE radio, which is supposed to facilitate the First Amendment. The hypocrisy is so real that you can touch it.
THE BOSTON FREE RADIO
QUASI BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Well, it was not something that I applied for. Someone at the station approached me, realizing my skills, and the members voted me to be on the board.
Know this: I stayed in the back of the room; didn't offer my resume, spoke once, didn't want to throw names around. I know who this writer is and do not need the self aggrandizing that Ron Cox indulges in on a daily basis.
THAT'S WHAT'S WRONG WITH ACCESS. RATHER THAN STICK TO THE JOB AT HAND, THEY ARE ALL POSING FOR ANIMAL CRACKERS! HOW DOES THAT HELP THE PUBLIC?
Back to Boston Free Radio:
The board was highly dysfunctional, which is why Boston Free Radio was a joke until they brought yours truly on board. When people didn't take meeting minutes, I began taking them. Then Dan took over and did an excellent job, but why did I have to do it first? How much does one volunteer have to do? Especially when those on paid staff get jealous and fear for their own job (David Gauthier Syndrome; when they don't have the talent, they target you.)
But others were also slacking on the board. Then the former E.D. of what was then called SCAT phoned me to say she wanted to shut down the board.
I told her my thought was to give them six more months. Look, it was volunteer work that I did NOT need, and one had to pay for parking as well as contribute their time, but it seemed that the board needed a second chance.
They then removed the long-time E.D. and hired Brian Zipp and Heather Mack at Somerville Media Center.
Within that six month frame Heather wanted to also shut the board down (so she could be in complete control of BFR) and I concurred, for obvious reasons. The six months extra that I gave them was not treated with respect. It was the same old nonsense with the lazy board.
So Heather shut the board down.
Which ruffled feathers but the logic was hard to disagree with: the board with Rachel and a few others was going nowhere, going in circles.
We actually did our job, despite some flat tires on the board of directors we got BFR functional, and there was a vision. A vision that has not been realized.
My idea, silly me, was to get BFR entrenched in Union Square, Davis Square and Central Square.
Without me there I would estimate you might get three people tuning in to Boston Free Radio if you are lucky. All Heather is interested in now is just filling up the time. They do NOTHING to generate a real audience, just smoke and mirrors they try to sell you as promotion. Promotion and Erica Jones, now there's the purist oxymoron in the history of the world.
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JOE'S NEWSLETTER FOR THE PEOPLE
Altruistic, as always, it was impossible with a whack job like Erica Jones ripping off my newsletter...Jones, the "media director" or whatever, couldn't find the password to the original Twitter for BFR.
So the social butterfly couldn't find the Twitter password, and couldn't find the e mail associated with the Twitter password. And she's the Media director or what have you?
Too busy being a social butterfly and ignoramus, she suffers from RCD - Ron Cox Syndrome: It's all about THEM and not the members. The public is cheated so that Erica Jones can have an audience of 1 to 3 for her shrill cackle and her obnoxious discussions, usually about herself.
* * * * *
Just as I volunteered my time for Mr. Cox for the better part of two decades (and you think the selfish individual ever offered me a stipend for my hard work and honest efforts?) Jones is just completely out of her mind. Tough to edit when some witch is screaming in your ear talking to the dude next to you while people are trying to work. I just turned up the volume in my headphones, but try doing a radio show, interview a best selling author while some cleaning lady is vacuuming during a live show. Or Erica's loud cackle going through the room.
Having multiple memberships at multiple stations I do a conference call these days in the quiet of my home and the station sends the file over. Why pay twenty-bucks to be offended by Erica Jones or have cowardly Brian Zipp do something stupid? These people lack integrity and the heart to facilitate access television to the public. THAT is their job. But social butterfly Erica Jones is so needy, craving attention, displaying her lack of etiquette and self-worth on a daily basis that I had to go on "sabbatical." Erica Jones and her type have no place in access television. They like being everyone's "buddy" but like Maynard G. Krebs (Gilligan himself, Bob Denver, playing a beatnik!) on the Many Loves of Dobie Gillis Show, they are allergic to a four letter word: W O R K.
Erica would rather steal my work and make the newsletter die than show up at Aeronaut on time, canceling at a moment's notice, the membership be damned. One Sunday Brian Zipp and I were the only two, the E.D. and a board member of the radio station, because Erica didn't give a shit to do the job she was being paid to do. And you RARELY if ever see the S word in my articles, I find the word as abhorrent as I find Erica Jones' unethical and rude failure to do the job she is being paid to do.
She is a cheat. She cheats the public out of the access television that they pay for. Her loud, obnoxious, shrill cackle resounds through the halls of Somerville Media Center. Put up with it, or else. What a witch.
BFR photo by Joe Viglione, (C)2019 all rights reserved.
And that's the professional opinion of a person much older than her. She's a child in a woman's body abusing her position. Erica Jones is the worst aspect of access television, and, unfortunately for the public paying the freight, there are a lot of creepy individuals like her gravitating towards access TV.
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THE PUBLIC DOESN'T KNOW WHAT ACCESS TV IS
Which brings us to one of the most egregious aspects of the wrongful conduct of David Gauthier, Erica Jones, Ron Cox, George "Medford was never set up properly" Manfra, Melodie Wing, Brian Zipp, Heather Mack, Allan Eyden @ WinCAM, Patrick Gordon at Medford Community Media, fat Patrick over at Melrose TV who steals guests from members...
These people FAIL TO DO OUTREACH. Oh they do their own form of "outreach" - but the fact that my television show has developed TWO presidents of TWO television stations, and board members at other stations, and award-winning hosts, is proof that until invited on to someone's program, the general public is unaware of access television.
David Gauthier threw out anyone not living in Winchester. The paranoid low-life is learning on the job. He's a snake and the kind of nasty person that scares people away from access television. Which is why Melodie Wing, Allan Eyden and Peter Pom Pom Pongratz are on the petrified wood board of WinCAM. They are the stain that won't go away and they are the worst thing to happen to access television in Winchester. They allowed a foul-mouthed 27 year old (at the time) to list to 15 year old kids, including a girl who was clearly in love with teacher, to tell the kids all the women he had intercourse with, on school property, worse than state Rep Paul Donato grabbing the dick of the then council vice president with the mayor of Medford laughing.
Oh, if you think this expose' doesn't generate real hate from all these bastards, guess again. They would love to see me dead.
Why do they want this writer dead?...Or at least this writer/volunteer was focused on helping the community. So very sad to see Ron Cox is all about Ron Cox and how he can benefit himself, either in his delusional "status" in the community, or monetarily by taking money in salary to allegedly help the community, while putting himself front and center...allegedly. Ron Cox is a very disappointing individual and a good example of why Executive Directors and board members need TERM LIMITS. Another station where I've been a member in good standing for over two decades said that term limits were the best thing that ever happened to them; that they were "just like Medford" (egads) in the early days, and that even losing a great president of the board or directors to term limits was better than the alternative: the Frankie Syndrome of delusions of grandeur in Medford where the self-appointed president thought he would be president for life.
Until he harassed Joe Vig.
Ron Cox, know this. What you did was MORE egregious than Frankie because you posed as my friend. I am COMMITTED to having you REMOVED and hopefully having you COMMITTED. It's in my Top 10 of major goals in life. Just ask Uncle Gene and Uncle Frankie if I'm effective.
You brought this upon yourself by libeling me, Mr. Cox, and keep looking in the mailbox because I'm sure the complaints I'm filing with government agencies (already been to Boston, already explained your wrongful conduct) is just the start. Ask Frankie P. how effective I am, and start looking for a real job, your days of Obie Ron Kenobi are definitely going to be in the rear view mirror sooner or later. You, by hurting honest access volunteers, signed your own fate. Wait for those government letters, they will be arriving soon. And then the lawsuit.
* * * * * * * *
Sad, but not unexpected in the dysfunctional world of public access television, on August 30, 2019 a judge and I both read a libelous piece of literature with the name Ron Cox attached to it. Now why would Mr. Cox libel a loyal "access lieutenant," if you will?
It is obvious to me and will be dealt with in another venue. Forgive me for being coy but keeping one's cards close to the vest is best when legal proceedings are on the horizon.
Mr. Cox is #2 on my list to bring in to "another venue" once I get the suit against the city of Medford rolling. The interesting news for Mr. Cox is that once the city gets the "presentment letter" in Medford*, I have six months with nothing to do but focus on properly and very carefully and very legally exposing Malden Access Television for its myriad flaws.
*It is my understanding that a city can take up to six months to respond to a "presentment letter" prior to a lawsuit.
Now why people tempt fate and risk yours truly employing his investigative prowess into their day-to-day highly questionable activities? Anyone with a brain would stay the fuck away from provoking me. It's been said that I am the NICEST guy in the world, and that I can be as (legally) COMBATIVE as I am nice. Which is probably true. So it is up to YOU if you want to "tempt fate" and provoke a hard working, good Christian man. Jesus knocked tables over for a reason in the temple.
I'm the guy who uses the temple of Public Access properly, helping those unfamiliar with the cable access world to get up to speed. When a Ron Cox or an Erica Jones misbehave, which - regrettably - they do quite often, the Jesus Christ of Access Television, yours truly, very legally knocks the proverbial tables over.
Hard. Just ask retired Judge Marie O. Jackson Thompson.
So given the choice, it is best to work with me than work against me. Of course, the fact that the individuals in question are neanderthals, and that is said logically and objectively, gives you the answer as to why they are so suicidal about their own careers.
Now talk nicely to the nice guy, and those who have, see wonderful programming worth promoting. Be vicious to a good, kind, wonderful human being like myself, we'll educate you in the ways of the law, with or without an attorney, and it will identify your wrongful conduct and delight me to be able to help the public by cleaning up a public mess.
THINK MEDFORD and how I shut down TV3 if you are in the mood to tempt fate my darlings! It was ugly, and we got the job done. Very legally, I might add.
Johnny Byers said that Dr. Fleabag, as I like to call him, Arthur Alan Deluca, called me "deadly" when it comes to cleaning up access issues. If so, it is the most appropriate thing that dimwit has ever uttered.
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If "Masochistic Ronny" wants to join the long line of reprobates that have - how do we politely say this - "been unkind" to me, we can ask Mayor McGlynn how it felt when I had former Governor Deval Patrick remove his uncle from the board of the Medford Housing Authority; why disgraced "Uncle Bob" Maiocco is no longer primping his perpetually balding pate at the Medford City Council after his home made movie "B.M.'s Adventures at Wells Fargo," or my dear, dear friend Solicitor Mark Rumley what it was like having a judge remove him from a witness stand for being "irrelevant." Oh, so sorry, Mark. The judge called your TESTIMONY irrelevant. It is I who think you are also IRRELEVANT. Thank you for allowing me to clear that up!
THE RONNY COX STORY*
*We're not talking about the excellent actor from Total Recall in case you are wondering.
The person in question is the self-serving public access version
Let's start with the basics. Walk into the long-time Executive Director of MATV's sloppy, messy office and compare it to a photo of Hiroshima.
How can a professional work in such a bizarre pile of paper and tapes and lunacy? Is that really what you want for your kids? To participate at a studio where the E.D. appears to be as lazy as he is ssssssooooooo unsystematic? Careless as all get out!
________________________________________________
TIME OUT:
Now you may be asking yourself - "Joe, if you participate in the world of public access television, wouldn't it be more efficient to mediate?
Joe Viglione answers: If this producer/host is as "logical" as Judge LaMothe proclaimed in court that I am, time is better spent building a business plan for a national TV show, not messing around with ignorant, full-of-themselves no-talents like David Gauthier, Melodie Wing, Allan Eyden over at WinCAM, or nutcases like Erica Jones and Heather Mack over at Somerville Media Center. I gave my notice for "sabbatical" over at Somerville after a wonderful interview, my final show at the station, where I got a creepy text from a host that borders on the lazy side looking to interview my guest. Notice also that they never pitch in to help you do YOUR show, they ask YOU to pitch in and help them. Leave It to Beaver and Eddie Haskell, indeed!
No quid pro quo.
Dear Heather has a history of being rather loud and obnoxious at other places, it is alleged, but Erica is just completely out to lunch. It is NOT a good working environment when a Brian Zipp or an Erica Jones behave like David Gauthier: low self-image because they are in over their head. Their lack of self-esteem causes them to try to build themselves up by belittling others. A toxic prescription for unsuspecting cable TV subscribers who don't get what they are paying for.
_____________________________
PLEASE NOTE:
THERE ARE MANY, MANY ACCESS PRODUCERS OUTRAGED BY THE CONDUCT. WE SPEAK QUIETLY ON THE ACCESS TV GRAPEVINE, BUT THE COMPLAINTS OUT THERE AGAINST THE PEOPLE MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE ARE MANY.
NOT JUST COMING FROM THIS REPORTER. PROBLEM IS, PEOPLE DO NOT WANT TO BE RETALIATED AGAINST THE WAY MEDFORD EXACTS RETALIATION ON ANYONE WHO SPEAKS OUT AGAINST THE POWERS THAT BE.
_____________________________________________
BOSTON FREE RADIO, SOMERVILLE MEDIA CENTER:
When I was voted on the quasi "board of directors" of Boston Free Radio - along with Rachel Tanenhaus - God bless her, she's now the E.D. of Cambridge Commission for Persons with Disabilities https://www.finditcambridge.org/organization/cambridge-commission-persons-disabilities-ccpd - and, look, I sincerely congratulate her for landing on her feet. I personally found Rachel to be lazy, full of herself, and associating herself with the wrong people. People in the "disability" world who give it a bad name. Angry, hurtful people who lash out at anyone who wants to help them.
After I had to file an OPEN MEETING LAW grievance against Rachel Tanenhaus (and Neil Osborne) at Medford City Hall, the authorities finding that Tanenhaus (and by extension, Attorney Osborne) DID violate the Open Meeting Law, it is clear evidence that Rachel Tanenhaus gives lip service on free speech, but doesn't want YOU to have that same right. She's an "authority" freak, she wants to be in a position of power to bully you, as she attempted to bully me. Well, she lost her case because of her bullying.
I must also add, Rachel Tanenhaus was nothing but lazy on our board of directors at BFR. One evening I gave her and her doggy a ride home to Medford. A friend of mine admonished me for my act of kindness and said "You're too kind. Don't EVER offer to drive a woman home in this day and age. They can make up any accusation against you." (paraphrased.) Silly me. When I wanted to Facebook live the Disability Commission Open Meeting Rachel Tanenhaus DENIED me that right. And she sat on a board of Boston FREE radio, which is supposed to facilitate the First Amendment. The hypocrisy is so real that you can touch it.
THE BOSTON FREE RADIO
QUASI BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Well, it was not something that I applied for. Someone at the station approached me, realizing my skills, and the members voted me to be on the board.
Know this: I stayed in the back of the room; didn't offer my resume, spoke once, didn't want to throw names around. I know who this writer is and do not need the self aggrandizing that Ron Cox indulges in on a daily basis.
THAT'S WHAT'S WRONG WITH ACCESS. RATHER THAN STICK TO THE JOB AT HAND, THEY ARE ALL POSING FOR ANIMAL CRACKERS! HOW DOES THAT HELP THE PUBLIC?
Back to Boston Free Radio:
The board was highly dysfunctional, which is why Boston Free Radio was a joke until they brought yours truly on board. When people didn't take meeting minutes, I began taking them. Then Dan took over and did an excellent job, but why did I have to do it first? How much does one volunteer have to do? Especially when those on paid staff get jealous and fear for their own job (David Gauthier Syndrome; when they don't have the talent, they target you.)
But others were also slacking on the board. Then the former E.D. of what was then called SCAT phoned me to say she wanted to shut down the board.
I told her my thought was to give them six more months. Look, it was volunteer work that I did NOT need, and one had to pay for parking as well as contribute their time, but it seemed that the board needed a second chance.
They then removed the long-time E.D. and hired Brian Zipp and Heather Mack at Somerville Media Center.
Within that six month frame Heather wanted to also shut the board down (so she could be in complete control of BFR) and I concurred, for obvious reasons. The six months extra that I gave them was not treated with respect. It was the same old nonsense with the lazy board.
So Heather shut the board down.
Which ruffled feathers but the logic was hard to disagree with: the board with Rachel and a few others was going nowhere, going in circles.
We actually did our job, despite some flat tires on the board of directors we got BFR functional, and there was a vision. A vision that has not been realized.
My idea, silly me, was to get BFR entrenched in Union Square, Davis Square and Central Square.
Without me there I would estimate you might get three people tuning in to Boston Free Radio if you are lucky. All Heather is interested in now is just filling up the time. They do NOTHING to generate a real audience, just smoke and mirrors they try to sell you as promotion. Promotion and Erica Jones, now there's the purist oxymoron in the history of the world.
______________________________________
JOE'S NEWSLETTER FOR THE PEOPLE
Altruistic, as always, it was impossible with a whack job like Erica Jones ripping off my newsletter...Jones, the "media director" or whatever, couldn't find the password to the original Twitter for BFR.
So the social butterfly couldn't find the Twitter password, and couldn't find the e mail associated with the Twitter password. And she's the Media director or what have you?
Too busy being a social butterfly and ignoramus, she suffers from RCD - Ron Cox Syndrome: It's all about THEM and not the members. The public is cheated so that Erica Jones can have an audience of 1 to 3 for her shrill cackle and her obnoxious discussions, usually about herself.
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Just as I volunteered my time for Mr. Cox for the better part of two decades (and you think the selfish individual ever offered me a stipend for my hard work and honest efforts?) Jones is just completely out of her mind. Tough to edit when some witch is screaming in your ear talking to the dude next to you while people are trying to work. I just turned up the volume in my headphones, but try doing a radio show, interview a best selling author while some cleaning lady is vacuuming during a live show. Or Erica's loud cackle going through the room.
Having multiple memberships at multiple stations I do a conference call these days in the quiet of my home and the station sends the file over. Why pay twenty-bucks to be offended by Erica Jones or have cowardly Brian Zipp do something stupid? These people lack integrity and the heart to facilitate access television to the public. THAT is their job. But social butterfly Erica Jones is so needy, craving attention, displaying her lack of etiquette and self-worth on a daily basis that I had to go on "sabbatical." Erica Jones and her type have no place in access television. They like being everyone's "buddy" but like Maynard G. Krebs (Gilligan himself, Bob Denver, playing a beatnik!) on the Many Loves of Dobie Gillis Show, they are allergic to a four letter word: W O R K.
Erica would rather steal my work and make the newsletter die than show up at Aeronaut on time, canceling at a moment's notice, the membership be damned. One Sunday Brian Zipp and I were the only two, the E.D. and a board member of the radio station, because Erica didn't give a shit to do the job she was being paid to do. And you RARELY if ever see the S word in my articles, I find the word as abhorrent as I find Erica Jones' unethical and rude failure to do the job she is being paid to do.
She is a cheat. She cheats the public out of the access television that they pay for. Her loud, obnoxious, shrill cackle resounds through the halls of Somerville Media Center. Put up with it, or else. What a witch.
BFR photo by Joe Viglione, (C)2019 all rights reserved.
And that's the professional opinion of a person much older than her. She's a child in a woman's body abusing her position. Erica Jones is the worst aspect of access television, and, unfortunately for the public paying the freight, there are a lot of creepy individuals like her gravitating towards access TV.
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THE PUBLIC DOESN'T KNOW WHAT ACCESS TV IS
Which brings us to one of the most egregious aspects of the wrongful conduct of David Gauthier, Erica Jones, Ron Cox, George "Medford was never set up properly" Manfra, Melodie Wing, Brian Zipp, Heather Mack, Allan Eyden @ WinCAM, Patrick Gordon at Medford Community Media, fat Patrick over at Melrose TV who steals guests from members...
These people FAIL TO DO OUTREACH. Oh they do their own form of "outreach" - but the fact that my television show has developed TWO presidents of TWO television stations, and board members at other stations, and award-winning hosts, is proof that until invited on to someone's program, the general public is unaware of access television.
David Gauthier threw out anyone not living in Winchester. The paranoid low-life is learning on the job. He's a snake and the kind of nasty person that scares people away from access television. Which is why Melodie Wing, Allan Eyden and Peter Pom Pom Pongratz are on the petrified wood board of WinCAM. They are the stain that won't go away and they are the worst thing to happen to access television in Winchester. They allowed a foul-mouthed 27 year old (at the time) to list to 15 year old kids, including a girl who was clearly in love with teacher, to tell the kids all the women he had intercourse with, on school property, worse than state Rep Paul Donato grabbing the dick of the then council vice president with the mayor of Medford laughing.
Oh, if you think this expose' doesn't generate real hate from all these bastards, guess again. They would love to see me dead.
Their sensitive little egos have them all thinking they are running NBC. If I had an ego it was on a planet far away in a time long ago. Stupid me, I'm in it for "the cause." To help everyone else.
That does not mean that fat Patrick in Melrose should steal guests, or a board member put the whammy on me because we were entering into a business deal. Or some woman employee in Melrose in love with me and rubbing my shoulders in an inappropriate way. Look, I'm homosexual who does NOT want women rubbing my shoulders. It's called sexual harassment to go along with all the other harassment.
So why would you want your child at public access TV where, in Somerville, kids are running around (and mom and dad paying about $200 bucks a pop!) while a phony news person, Joe Lynch, sexually harasses me by telling me he wants Mayor Joe Curtatone's ass.
There's no place in access TV for such inappropriate Eric Jones/Joe Lynch/Francis Goodhue at MMTV behavior.
Sitting around the table at MMTV about sixteen years ago, Francis "Frank" Goodhue made a homophobic comment about former Boston radio host "Jay Severin" (stage name.)
Frank Goodhue: "Jay Severin's a fag."
Joe Vig: "You - as a board member - can't say such things."
Frank Goodhue: "There are no fags here."
And here I thought I was the biggest homo in access television!
I looked at the chick who had a thing for me and she cracked a smile. I had come out to her. She said days later "Oh, he's an old Republican." Tell that to the #MeToo movement.
That was enough for me. "Big" Steve Marra at Medford Community Cablevision, Inc. with his "A fag is a fag, a spade is a spade, an (N WORD) is an (N Word) is pathetic. Steve Marra would push his phony "Born Again Christian" status (in his mind only!) on every member at the station. He was a bigot using Jesus in a bizarre, perverted way. Marra would say "I can sin because I'm saved."
You want your child around such ugly hypocrisy, much of it as sexualized as it is bigoted!
Fat Patrick in Melrose (what is the jerk's name? Patrick Doyle...) behavior. Stealing guests. Just plain WRONG.
Ron Cox should know better.
Ron told me that he told Rep Donato that "Joe Vig is passionate" about TV. Yes, and I had the integrity to tell Ron Cox that as Executive Director it was a major conflict of interest to host his own television program at the station that hired him to be the facilitator of programming. Ron Cox takes advantage of his position to be "Obie Ron Kenobi" - to use the station as a platform for his highly sensitive ego. It violates the public trust. His sloppy desk a definite picture of what is going on inside his allegedly troubled mind.
And good old State Reprobate Paul J. Donato, not allegedly running around naked at the Russian Steam bath on a Friday night in Chelsea, as rumor has it, allegedly grabbing the backside of Michael Marks at the VFW the week before he was caught on camera on Sunday, October 15, 2017, at the high school, in front of two little children and a fifteen year old student playing Easter egg hunt with Michael Marks' Easter eggs. All two of them.
Ron Cox should know better.
Ron told me that he told Rep Donato that "Joe Vig is passionate" about TV. Yes, and I had the integrity to tell Ron Cox that as Executive Director it was a major conflict of interest to host his own television program at the station that hired him to be the facilitator of programming. Ron Cox takes advantage of his position to be "Obie Ron Kenobi" - to use the station as a platform for his highly sensitive ego. It violates the public trust. His sloppy desk a definite picture of what is going on inside his allegedly troubled mind.
And good old State Reprobate Paul J. Donato, not allegedly running around naked at the Russian Steam bath on a Friday night in Chelsea, as rumor has it, allegedly grabbing the backside of Michael Marks at the VFW the week before he was caught on camera on Sunday, October 15, 2017, at the high school, in front of two little children and a fifteen year old student playing Easter egg hunt with Michael Marks' Easter eggs. All two of them.
This is not how public access TV should be.
Me, I've got work to do, and greener pastures await, but there is a definite danger at access television, from creeped out stalkers (many of them) to foul-mouthed politicians and board members, access television is NOT a safe place for your kids.
Not when Obi Ron Kenobi breaks the law in a flagrant and dangerous way, and that is a fact, not the made-up libel that Ron Cox concocts and spreads. Shame on him.
TO BE CONTINUED
Me, I've got work to do, and greener pastures await, but there is a definite danger at access television, from creeped out stalkers (many of them) to foul-mouthed politicians and board members, access television is NOT a safe place for your kids.
Not when Obi Ron Kenobi breaks the law in a flagrant and dangerous way, and that is a fact, not the made-up libel that Ron Cox concocts and spreads. Shame on him.
TO BE CONTINUED
