STATE REP DONATO was censored by TV3

State Rep Paul Donato
271 Spring St
Medford MA 02155

Dear Rep Donato:

On Nov 19, 2007 You told the Medford Transcript:  It’s the most protected right. I was just flabbergasted.” Donato said this is the second time TV3 has decided not to run a program which he sent in, the first being a mock legislative session at the State House this past summer.
Election time at TV3, bookkeeper hired to straighten out ...
https://medford.wickedlocal.com/article/20071119/NEWS/311199802

THIS IS ABOUT AIRING POLITICAL AND ALL PROGRAMS ON MCC WITHOUT RESTRICTIONS
When can ALL shows go on the air without Patrick Gordon restricting them?
 
Our State Rep has a problem sweeping his own stairwell in Medford (Paul, it's still a mess as of 2 days ago!) - why does a constituent have to do my representative's job for him?
 
WHAT ARE THE LAWS REGARDING POLITICAL SPEECH AND WHY IS PATRICK GORDON ALSO IGNORING THEM?

Medford Community Media has no right banning political speech or ANY SPEECH
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_speech_in_the_United_States

This is the most highly guarded form of speech because of its purely expressive nature and importance to a functional republic. Restrictions placed upon core political speech must weather strict scrutiny analysis or they will be struck down.
Freedom of speech in the United States - Wikipedia

Mr. Donato told me over a decade ago that Jack Dempsey would put my shows on the air "If they were educational."
Mr. Donato, your friend Dempsey never did.

Now I am demanding my shows air.  Krissy Fraser took my DVDs, the show never aired.  Patrick Gordon is jealous of my hard work and honest efforts.  Gordon - as evidenced by his actions - embraces the ugly TV3 crowd that are "scarecrows" keeping people out of access TV, including Art Deluca who had the audacity to even censor our representative, Paul J. Donato.

See the Demarest vs. Athol/Orange article below.  I am a professional news gatherer, which is part of why Mr. Gordon is angry at me.

Freedom of speech—the right to express opinions without government restraint—is a democratic ideal that dates back to ancient Greece. In the United States, the First Amendment guarantees free speech, though the United States, like all modern democracies, places limits on this freedom. In a series of landmark cases, the U.S. Supreme Court over the years has helped to define what types of speech are—and aren’t—protected under U.S.   https://www.history.com/topics/united-states-constitution/freedom-of-speech

Pat Gordon appears to have been hired to censor and obstruct free speech by the Muccini-Burke Administration

The Current Administration Cannot Allow this to Keep on Happening
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Medford Community Media has no right banning political speech
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_speech_in_the_United_States


Demarest vs Athol/Orange

The court found:
``At base, plaintiffs had a constitutionally protected right
to record matters of public interest, see Smith v. City of
Cumming, 212 F.3d 1332, 1333 (11th Cir. 2000), cert. denied 531
U.S. 978 (2000); .... as applied to these plaintiffs, the Release Form
provision made no distinction between the newsworthy and the
mundane, or between matters of public interest and purely private
matters.

Rather than being tailored to protect legitimate interests
in privacy, the Release Form Provision made Athol's news makers
news editors. By refusing to sign a release form, Athol's news
makers could ensure that their images did not appear on AOTV. It
is highly probable that the filming which gave rise to Demarest's
suspension will be found to be constitutionally protected.``

https://williamahuston.blogspot.com/2013/06/demarest-v-atholorange-and-rights-of.html


Published on Wednesday, March 6, 2002 by the Associated Press
Judge Says Amateur News Gatherers on Public Access TV Have Same Rights as Professionals

by Justin Pope

http://commondreams.org/headlines02/0306-06.htm

  BOSTON - A federal court has ruled that nonprofessional news gatherers have the same rights as professionals, supporting a community gadfly who claimed she was muzzled by a public access cable company.

It is the first ruling of its kind, said the American Civil Liberties Union, which represented plaintiff Patricia Demarest in her fight with Athol/Orange Community Television.

"It will open so many more doors for common citizens to use public access as a public forum and a place to speak their minds," said Demarest, co-producer of the program "Think Tank 2000."

"It's a fight for any common citizen to bring forth ideas and generate healthy communities."
 
 Fed Court: Amateur News Gatherers Have Same Rights as Professionals : Indybay

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