Susan Fleischmann on public access TV

Submitted by wccatv on February 29, 2008 - 3:17pm.


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Worcester City Officials : Have you watched this?

Submitted by mauro on February 29, 2008 - 4:04pm.

Recks wrote:

"WCCA TV 13 very much plays a similar valuable role for our citizens. In fact, nothing against anyone utilizing youtube, but WCCA's presentations are so much better,in many respects, than most youtube postings.
Susan's presentation illustrates the value of a public access center is far greater than just jobs.

Public Access Television in a city has and will continue to:
1. Encourage and realize community participation, 2. Democratize media by making it accessible to all, 3. Nurtures and supports a local creative and autonomous economy by enabling a free flow of information along with the resources to sustain itself, 4. Provides affordable and free venue for promoting Worcester's diversity of culture, events, ethnic perspectives and views and opinions, welcomes fresh and innovative ideas. 5. Meets the documented need for neighborhoods and organizations to celebrate local accomplishments and attractions as our public access programmings reaches out on cable and on-line.

In our city of Worcester, it has to be said, based on WCCA's track record in the last 22 years, my friends and I recognize there is SO MUCH MORE TO COME from our public access station.

As the city nears a settlement with Charter's Franchise renewal we hope the vision and wisdom to continue to encourage WCCA's growth into the future is not lost."

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Public Access may be more democratic than youtube

Submitted by Anonymous on February 29, 2008 - 4:33pm.

FROM John S. :

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07217/806497-237.stm

Some argue that 'Wayne's World' is still more democratic than YouTube
Sunday, August 05, 2007
By Adrian McCoy, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

from that story:
"Public access, by almost any standard, has been a valuable addition to
the local media scene," he wrote on the Center for Citizen Media Web
site. "Valuable, but outdated: It's time to phase out public access --
but in a way that brings us even better publicly-created news and
entertainment."

He advocates a 5-to-10-year transition period, during which public
access facilities would provide updated training in production
techniques, based on a Web model rather than a broadcast model.

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