Becky   Illinois

Posted: 08:28 am [PST] on January 20 2011

The internet has made Public Access television obsolete... which is why we're all sitting here watching this video online right now.

Rod Bleckstyne   Vancouver Can.

Posted: 11:00 pm [PST] on January 19 2011

I can't see where public access tv has had any real effect on either motivating viewers in defending/promoting Democracy nor in stopping the Fascist US Govt/Corporate Dictatorship of America! Their Wars,Oil and Financial Atrocities continue unabated!

Joe Rizoli   Framingham MA USA

Posted: 09:04 pm [PST] on January 16 2011

Another problem can come from the access cable channels itself. In Framingham MA USA, our cable station FPAC-TV changed its Policy and Procedures Policy's THREE times to get us off the air with help from the ADL and other Jewish Elite nutjobs who mock freedom of speech and Constitutional liberty's. So it can come from within and WHO runs your access cable channel .

Joe Rizoli
CCFIILE.com

George Buzzetti   Los Angeles

Posted: 01:49 pm [PST] on January 16 2011

I have worked with and know Leslie Dutton. She is performing an important public service with promoting reinstating public access television. I had a public access show called "Education Watch" for six years. It had an effect on how people viewed the documented truth about education and its effects on society.

No matter your view under free speach you should be able to express it. This is the basis of a real, not imagined, society which believes in the truth and freedom. For instance, because of Wikileaks the people of Tunesia are in the process of taking back their country and so far it is not based on religeous ideology but the facts on the ground as revealed in the State Department memos, which I read just before the Tunesians said "We have had enough of your theft of our country".

Please help this new organization gain back our free speach rights as they were laid out long ago in the legislation allowing cable television. I was one of the first people who took classes in San Diego when this was first allowed. It was a long time ago. You must ask "why don't they want CABLE ACCESS TELEVISION anymore"?

annoyed   Ventura

Posted: 03:34 pm [PST] on December 01 2010

Public access TV is a legacy service. Its time has come and gone. With digital over-the-air, satellite TV, and the move toward video over the internet, public access TV makes no sense anymore. Why impose the cost on cable TV subscribers? Sorry, it's time to move on. Put your energy elsewhere, and let the cable subscribers have the money back in their own pockets. Reappraise the mission.

Carl   Torrance. CA

Posted: 06:31 pm [PST] on November 29 2010

Like a lot of people I saw the good and bad of public access in it's hey day, and realistically if the laws allow a city or cable company to pull out of PA, they will, and they have. (Face it, it's all about the money.) The main thing that PA brought was training and experience. I got my start in public access and it enabled me to learn all aspects of the TV trade. The college education I had was somewhat useless until I actually had real hands on experience that PA gave me. (I've been working in TV for 18 years now.) Granted the internet, you tube, twitter have given us quick forms of public access, but the problem I have found is that, as with much on the web, the trust level of the content is in question, if there is any substantial content other than a cat jumping out of a box. Another factor regarding PA is the loss of jobs, one cable company I was with had a production staff of close to 30, now they have 1. Granted PA was never a high paying career, but people were employed and they gained experience.

gary leigh   granada hills

Posted: 03:57 pm [PST] on November 09 2010

this is a battle ground for information i hope you petition the public to preserve your service.

Ben Dover   LA LA Land

Posted: 08:26 am [PST] on September 25 2010

This is about power. Public access give the people far too much power to bring awareness to hot topics that spineless other channels (owned by big business', backed by politicians)won't or don't want people to know.

Look at the Bell scandle. It's been going on for years, under all our taxpaying noses. The news channels have no choice now but to air it, but where were the stories before? Look at SBX2-11, it was created solely for the purpose of covering up the illegal money paid out to Judges for years illegally. Where are the local stories about this scandle? You won't see any, because it was caught, hidden, and it involves the whole state, not just a city. That would be FAR too devostational for normal, mindless people to handle. (If the Bell crooks knew they were about to get caught, they would have written the same kind of retro-active free ride bill just like SBX2-11?)

This is what public access t.v. airs. True stories about true issues, that effect people where we live. If you watch regular news channels, you are being sold a bill of goods, stories written and read by actors, blessed by corporate attorneys and politicians flunkies. News papers are the same thing.

Normal, fog living people, that swallow the b.s., like to be led down the road to the slotter house. It's familiar, it's comfortable, and it's no brain cells required thinking.

We are but an elite group of people, much like neo when he was awakened from the matrix. We see what is going on, and we aren't gonna swallow it any more. We aren't going to hand over our hard erned pay without question. We want to know the truth behind the lies, and we aren't afraid to ask questions.

Keep pressing for Public T.V. It's part of our Human Rights and Civil Rights. Our Government seems to forget, or choses to ignore that we do have rights. I know that we are slowly losing them all, but until we are completely silenced, and have lost all our rights, and until we are all stamped with a number on our foreheads, KEEP FIGHTING.
(And that day will come)

mia   los angeles

Posted: 08:29 am [PST] on September 17 2010

Wow. I had no idea. I don't know about others but I have been so caught up in the catastrophe that I saw it disappear but it didn't register. Mr Asner has it right. This is the peoples voice on the airwaves. It is not about other alternatives. We can hand out pamphlets and stand on boxes in the public square. That does not balance the loss of a voice on the airwaves. I love public access tv. It is refreshing, entertaining and informative. A place on the airwaves open to all. After all it is the PUBLIC AIRWAVES. Once again the politicians sold the public out.

Samantha Owens   Los Angeles

Posted: 03:06 pm [PST] on September 13 2010

Dear Voter In LA

Your comment sounds as though it is coming from the office of ATT, Verizon and Time Warner Cable, who want to use the broadband capacity to sell Internet services. If the public had been made aware of the meetings to shut down the public channels you would have had to rent the Staples center to hold the crowd. Please, don't you think we can see this self service comment.