Thank goodness people like Bunnie are around to bring to our attention and to realize the bulls**t and betrayal that is going on, as companies like Charter, At& T, Comcast and others, continue to blow smoke in the face of state legislators, in Tennessee, who end up pandering to them with insider deals. Deals that make rationally thinking people feeling perplexed and abandoned by their elected leaders.

Link to Bunnie's blog here where our baby left us doin' the Tennessee Waltz.

If they are not supporting, with vigorous fight, FOR public access, participatory media that empowers you, what are they supporting? Hint: NOT YOU.

Mauro

A letter from Charter to customers whose email, all messages new&old,was deleted. Charter is at fault. 14,000 Charter customers were effected.

"For affected customers, we are unable to recover the lost content."

Link

Just in case any one is keeping tabs.

I read this today in USA Today, written
By Greg Stohr, Bloomberg News. Because it mentions Charter Communications at the end I thought it would be worth knowing about.

WASHINGTON — If Tuesday's arguments in a widely watched securities case are any indication, the Supreme Court appears unlikely to expand liability in cases of accounting fraud to banks and other parties that had extensive business dealings with the Enrons of the world.

Instead, three justices likely to control the case's outcome — Anthony Kennedy, Samuel Alito and Chief Justice John Roberts — aimed skeptical questions at a lawyer seeking to sue Motorola and Scientific-Atlanta for allegedly deceiving shareholders of cable company Charter Communications.

"I see no limitation to your proposal for liability," Kennedy told the lawyer pressing the lawsuit.

The case will affect investor efforts to recoup billions of dollars lost in frauds at Enron, HealthSouth and other companies. Enron investors are targeting banks, including Merrill Lynch, while HealthSouth shareholders are suing UBS and other banks. Georgetown University law professor Donald Langevoort has called the case "securities law's Roe v. Wade."
Business groups say an adverse ruling would put honest companies at risk and dissuade foreign corporations from dealing with American businesses. Trade groups representing banks, accounting firms and law firms are urging the court to restrict "third party" lawsuits.

The Supreme Court in 1994 ruled 5-4 that federal securities law bars lawsuits for "aiding and abetting" another company's wrongdoing. Kennedy wrote that opinion, and two other current justices, Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas, joined the majority.
Motorola and Scientific-Atlanta, which is now a Cisco Systems subsidiary, say the investors are trying to circumvent that ruling by presenting a similar claim under a different label.
That argument resonated with Alito, who told shareholder lawyer Stanley Grossman, "I see absolutely no difference between your test and the elements of aiding and abetting."
Roberts noted that Congress changed the law in 1995 to permit aiding-and-abetting lawsuits by the Securities and Exchange Commission, but not by private shareholders. He questioned whether the court should authorize lawsuits when Congress has chosen not to.
"Isn't the effort by Congress to legislate a good signal that they have kind of picked up the ball, and they are running with it, and we shouldn't?" Roberts asked.
The lawsuit before the justices says that Charter overpaid Motorola and Scientific-Atlanta by $17 million for television set-top boxes and that the two vendors then returned the money by buying advertising at inflated rates on Charter's cable systems.
Charter allegedly then added the $17 million in phony revenue to its books. The lawsuit says the set-top box contracts were backdated to make the two sets of transactions appear unrelated. Charter isn't involved in the Supreme Court case."
By Greg Stohr, Bloomberg News

I was surprised to see NBC's "ER", with all it's commercials, playing, at 10:35 PM, on the Worcester Public School Channel 11 in full sync with neighboring channel 10. So, Ch 10, on Charter cable in Worcester is taking up two spaces on the tier tonight. Has anyone else seen this in Worcester or other Charter Towns? I will call Charter or City Hall and try to find out. I'll keep you posted.

MD

WCCA is looking into why so many have called attention to the grainy quality of our video presentations on Charter's cable system.

Our play out (out put) appears sharp, clear and robust. However, viewers are seeing a grainy, really lousy, signal.

There have been subcarrier problems for years. We have made a number of phone calls to Charter and the city.

Charter's service technicians are very responsive however, the problem continues and it is unacceptable.

This is not fair to subscribers who pay to recieve a quality signal and it is not fair to WCCA TV our volunteer producers and the entrie city we serve.

WCCA TV is requesting the Inet be upgraded and that the problem be addressed for once and for all.

If you continue to be recieving poor reception of WCCA TV channel 13 please phone us at 508 755-1880 ext 11.

Thank you.