Exactly!! It's not enough we have this rag that spins line a dreidle-now we have government controlled television. Maybe this "producer" should concentrate on improving City Council coverage and not empty chair coverage? The same DEM morons with their mitts ruining everything.
I am not sure I understand "Producer should concentrate on improving CC coverage?" Benny what exactly needs to be done to improve City Council coverage? Looking for your ideas.
Both meetings hit the air 5 times during the week following them. We can carry our questions to the rail based on what we learned at the Committees meetings now available to the citizens via TV and from their web presence that Piazzo indicated will be happening.
With only one channel to work with, TW wouldn't fix Channel 18, no support from the city and a full schedule of programing SACC-TV wasn't allowed to do this.
John Harnden and Pat Zollinger knew all along these meetings
had to and
must be a part of the governmental process.
J. Harnden with a group of volunteers and SACC-TV were the PIONEERS of this initial endeavor with the live feed of the City Council meetings.. Did it for decades and he
SHOULD have been included in this change but reality says he wasn't and that things will never be the same again. The city will never say thank you to him in public, they are too ashamed to do it. I believe they would only do it if they were pressured into it and not doing it with sincerity. We all witnessed the
horrific way OSM treated Harnden. Pat Zollinger let the truth be known. Without her we wouldn't have heard and even better seen the "whole" truth of the treatment of Harnden.
At the Committees meetings now it is reality we can see everyone. Can hear just about everything. They even moved where the presenters from the various agencies and departments speak from so they are on camera facing it and can be heard. Never was like that before.
I have no idea if those in attendance at the Committees meetings can hear any better. No idea if that was ever addressed. Only someone attending them would know and maybe one of those folks is here on the board and can tell us.
I think maybe a look see at the March 7rh Committees meeting will show you how far it has come.
Committees meetings taping started with Pat Zollinger
proving that
it can be done with a small hand held camera uploaded to the web. She is still there recording the whole meeting. I am glad she is. The facts are the facts there is TV coverage of the Committees meetings now and I think it should no longer be put on Pat's shoulders. Although I bet she would never back away from it. That is her decision to make.
It is a Stratton, Mcarthy and Morris thing that pulls the strings now being they are the Cable Committee on the city council. This is a fact, it is a reality we can't do anything about till Stratton and McCarthy are gone in city government. Stratton is gone to watch the water goes up, the water goes down. I think McCarthy will always have a hand in our government even when his term is up on the council he is so meshed into all that goes on in this city. I don't trust his motivations.
It is now a reality that the meetings are taped and put up on OSM. It took the public, citizens like Harnden and Zollinger to prove to this city administration what the people are demanding and can be done.
SACC-TV was never given any real support from the city or from TW to do such a thing in regards to covering the Committees meetings. It was also proven out by the fact TW would never would fix channel 18 so it could be used.
It is over with the old SACC-TV but there is a new SACC Inc. that will not let the issue of the PUBLIC being involved die.
The reality...both meetings are covered now so we can see and hear them live. The public has nothing to say in it, everything is done in secrete but it is being done. Although I did hear OSM is going to create boards. They haven't said much about that. Like how are board members chosen? By who you know in city government? Again secrecy.
Now the meetings can be seen by TW cable subscribers and those that use computers no matter who their ISP is. But what is really happening... In the back of my mind I keep thinking of the history of Germany. They were no longer allowed to have an army so instead Hitler presented a carrot to them. Had them formed in a military design to provide employment and food to all in the country. Didn't take much to have the shovels and hoes to be exchanged to rifles and cannons.
What is happening here with OSM? What is their goal? I really truly wonder. Too many politicians in the mix, too much secrecy.
Benny it is time for folks to get off their buns and get to SACC Inc meetings help them push the issue of the need for the PUBLIC to be a part of PUBLIC Access.
SACC Inc. meets every 3rd Tuesday 5:30pm at the Price Chopper Community Center. In my opinion it isn't right to expect Pat Zollinger to keep doing it all, get all the changes made in Schenectady that need to be done. She has never said she won't or wouldn't continue to tape the Committees meetings I just think it is time to give her more support. I am hoping SACC Inc. will be the force behind making change now, time will tell. Continue on what J. Harnden and the volunteers and her proved can be done.
I try hard to always present the truth as I know of it. The following are a true facts. Pat started coverage of the Committees meetings being taped and uploading them to the web. Barbara Blanchard played a role being she is on the council in getting the committees meetings taped so they could be played back on TV. Blanchard constantly bringing it up at the committees meetings.
Me ducks now.
Celeste Trotz
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