WILL SHE BE THE NEW E.D. IN WINCHESTER? THAT'S THE RUMOR IN ACCESS TV CIRCLES.
After 11 years a terrific Executive Director has left her post at SCAT.
We have always maintained that the idea of term limits is a good thing, rotating crops works better for farmers, rotating executive directors gives members fresh eyes on projects.
With the failed regime of David Gauthier, a rookie E.D. who was both classless and clueless, Winchester Community Access and Media became less about community, media and Winchester and more about insiders hijacking the resources for themselves.
Look at the lack of good, solid programming in Winchester, and listen to the Winchester members complaining about bullying, lack of help, condescending attitudes from the likes of the insufferable Melodie Wing, the negligent and self-absorbed Allan Eyden, and the poor excuse for a board member, Peter Pongratz. Those three individuals along with David Gauthier, Anthony Gaimari, Joseph LaRocca and Sean O'Brien destroyed Winchester's opportunity for growth in community media. Their lack of rules for themselves, failure to properly teach members and abuse of the facility for their own purposes are the exact same problems that plagued Medford Community Cablevision, Inc., and led to the spectacular shutdown of the hotbed of sexual innuendo, employees with dirty mouths, and harassment of members.
Sound familiar, Winchester? We've been to that rodeo before and it is ugly, evil and not why cable Tv SUBSCRIBERS pay a heavy price for Melodie A. Wing to run around like she's the Queen of Winchester Access TV.
She's not. She's supposed to be a public servant, not "producer of the year."
Of course when a talent-less hack like Wing has to remove all the members and crown herself the queen, you know she has an overblown ego that does great destruction to community media in Winchester.
And her retaliation, hatred and vindictiveness are not the qualities a station needs in a president. The way I saw her bully her way into the presidency is Exhibit A, your Honor, Exhibit A, Your Honor.
Somerville installed a consultant to bring these new eyes to Somerville. Winchester should do the same.
What are you afraid of, Melodie Wing? Being found out? People seeing what a disgrace you are to community media. Stay tuned, people, we have some BIG plans for changing the tone in Winchester, all very legal, very press worthy, and very important for Winchester to move forward.
You see, unlike the pathetic Gauthier, Wing, Eyden, Pongratz, O'Brien, Gaimari cabal, some people actually care about community media.
We're working on having the authorities frog-march those reprobates rights out of WinCAM and bringing in a new dawn.
Sunlight is the best disinfectant. Here's my photo of sunlight on August 29th...I have a timetable for cleaning up Winchester and the very legal, very vocal, very public dismantling of the very old, ugly WinCAM regime is coming soon.
Sunshine for WinCAM, it is coming, there will be a liberation day, and that slob from Salem will finally get his walking papers.
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We appreciate Wendy Bloms 11 years of work, and look forward to a new chapter in Somerville television, where this editor's first show launched in 1979, years before Somerville TV became a non-profit. Back in the 1970s Time Warner had a local origination facility on Day St. in Davis Square, next to the post office. That is where my public access career began, long before Mr. Gauthier even knew the term "community media."
My goal is to clean up Winchester the way that I helped change the tone in Woburn, Stoneham, Medford and other cities and towns, for the better.
Winchester, you are on my radar and improvements are coming. Soon. Do stay tuned.
