Flash Back: Full Disclosure Network® Mini-Documentary Video (8 min)

Producers T. J. Johnston and Leslie Dutton

Los Angeles, CA. The Full Disclosure Network® is re-releasing an historical “Mini Documentary” video providing background and commentary on this “alternative news” network that has been billed as “the news behind the news” and is distributed to 45 community cable channels throughout California and expanding to other states including: Washington D.C., Manhattan NY, York PA, San Antonio TX, Framingham MA, St. Paul MN, Waterloo WI and video streaming world-wide from the Internet.

This eight minute “Mini Documentary” features video clips of prominent officials and controversial guests who have appeared on the Full Disclosure® shows over the past seventeen years on this independent, non-profit, news program. Appearing in the video are:

MINI DOCUMENTARY

L.A. County District Attorney Steve Cooley

Ramona Ripston, Executive Director ACLU,
LAPD Chief William Bratton
Larry Flynt, Publisher Hustler Magazine
Former U. S. Attorney General Edwin Meese, III
L. A. County Sheriff Lee Baca
Stephen Yagman, Civil Rights Attorney
L. A. Councilman Bernard Parks
Nativo Lopez, President MAPA
LAPD Assistant Chief David Gascon (ret)
David Cartwright, Sr. Partner, O’Melveny & Myers
Don Mullinax, LAUSD Inspector General
Roger Carrick, Special Legal Counsel LAUSD Inspector General,
James B. Reidy, Jr. Professor Emeritus L.A. Pierce College
Kathy Dreyfuss, ACLU Staff Attorney

In 1992 the independent Full Disclosure Network® program began it’s unorthodox climb to prominence, starting on one public access cable channel in Santa Monica, expanding throughout California to world-wide presence on the Internet. The Academy of Television Arts and Sciences presented host Leslie Dutton with a public affairs Emmy Award for the 2001 Series entitled “L. A.’s War Against Terrorism”. In 2008 Full Disclosure producers Leslie Dutton and T J Johnston received an Emmy nomination for the series covering the Federal prosecution of Orange County Sheriff Michael Carona.

L.A. Budget & Finance Committee Scuttles Hearing on Public Cable Access Funding

DAVID R. HERNANDEZ

http://www.savepublicaccess.wordpress.com/

Los Angeles, CA According to David R. Hernandez, president of the Los Angeles Public Access Coalition (LAPAC) the City Council Committee on Budget and Finance deliberately avoided a confrontation with the public when they failed to schedule a public hearing for this Monday, January 12th to consider funding for a designated public cable access channel.

EXTRAORDINARY MEDIA COVERAGE
It is believed the extraordinary publicity generated by the Los Angeles Times Patt Morrison column and front page coverage by Reed Johnson and Fox 11 News was responsible for the delay. ABC Nightline Special to air on Wedesday, Jan 14th 11:30 p.m.

COMMON CAUSE JOINS BATTLE
Hernandez announced on the LAPAC Blog today, that Common Cause has joined the battle to save public access and sent out a massive Email appeal to their members, nationwide, to facilitate Email letters to Attorney General Gerry Brown and City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo to seek injunctive relief under the Business and Professions Code 17200 Section 3 (Unfair Business Practices)against Time Warner Cable for loss of 12 channels and studios.

VIDEO APPEAL FOR ACTION
Here is the Video News Blog, where Full Disclosure Network first revealed the eminent demise of “public access” cable television channels. Featuring L.A. City Councilman Bill Rosendahl with David Hernandez, describing the 2007 (DIVCA) legislation that enabled the Cities to take seize control of the public access TV.

ABC Nightline Exposes Full Disclosure & Public Access Controversy: Video (5 min)

Los Angeles, CA. The Full Disclosure Network® presents a five minute exclusive video report on the ABC Nightline segment videotaped Tuesday, December 16th covering the campaign to save the public access cable channels with behind the scenes footage from the ABC interview with Leslie Dutton. The ABC Nightline segment will air nationwide on January 9, 2009 at 11:30 p.m.

APPEAL TO ATTORNEY GENERAL:

Host Leslie Dutton tells ABC Nightline that the independent producers’ have begun a campaign to enlist the California Attorney General Edmund G. Brown, Jr. to file for emergency injunctive relief to stop Time Warner Cable from shutting down 14 public access studios and channels on December 31, 2008. These public channels been serving cable subscribers and producers in Los Angeles for over 25 years.

Among the groups and individuals sending letters to the Attorney General are:

• Los Angeles Public Access Coalition, David Hernandez, President
• The Caucus of Producers, Writers, Directors & the New Media
• Full Disclosure Network, Leslie Dutton
• PEG Access Support Groups: alliance-announce@lists.alliancecm.org; access-forum@lists.alliancecm.org; ACM-West@yahoogroups.com

CONTROL OF PUBLIC CHANNELS:
With the apparent approval of Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, the public access issue languished, without Council attention or concern, for almost two years until the Time Warner deadline approached and the Holiday Season arrived. With very little time for the public to react, only then did the City Council push through plans to consolidate the 14 public access cable channels into four channels under government control and they failed to provide for even one dedicated public channel.

AFTER THOUGHT:
Instead when the public objected , the Council approved an “after thought”, verbal motion that was sent to the Budget and Finance Committee requesting an investigation into possible funding. No date has been set for a hearing before the Budget & Finance Committee, nor is it know if there search for funding has begun. See Council file here: http://clkrep.lacity.org/onlinedocs/2006/06-2818_ca_12-03-08.pdf

SEND AUTOMATED LETTER TO AG:
At the end of the video viewers are asked to send an automated letter to the Attorney General using a link below the video screen on the webpage. The letter urges the AG to file for injunctive relief under the Business & Professions code 17200, Sec. 3 to prevent Time Warner from shutting down the City's public access channels and studios, until such time as the City has replaced the facilities.

Emmy Nom For Full Disclosure Cable TV Series: Feds Nail OC Sheriff Carona: Justice or Abuse: Internet Video Preview (5 min)

The Full Disclosure Network® 2007 four-part cable TV series covering the Federal prosecution of Orange County Sheriff Mike Carona has been nominated for an L.A. Area Emmy Award in the Informational, Public Affairs Series category (50% or more In Studio). A five minute video preview of the nominated series entitled "Feds Nail OC Sheriff: Justice Or Abuse" is available for viewing here .

This series was sponsored and originally featured on Charter Communications Cable system in Glendale and distributed to 45 cable systems. The Academy of Television Arts and Sciences will announce the Emmy winners in all categories at an Awards ceremony to be held on Saturday, September 6, 2008 at the Leonard Goldenson Theater.

Included in the series is an exclusive interview with Sheriff Mike Carona only days after his arraignment in Federal Court. Other experts on the subject of Federal Prosecutions, procedures and sentencing who describe the possible fate of the Sheriff are:

• Anthony Patchett, Special Assistant L. A. District Attorney(ret)
• Stan Goldman, Professor Loyola Law School and Media consultant
• Jan L.Handzlik, former Federal Prosecutor, Partner Howrey, LLP.
• Mark Allenbaugh, former Staff Attorney U.S. Sentencing Guidlines Commission & partner with Allenbaugh & Samini lawfirm.

Among the issues covered in the series are:

• Tactics of the Federal Prosecutors,
• Role and impact of the media in tainting the jury pool,
• Federal sentences and plea bargaining process.

This is the second time Full Disclosure Network® has been nominated for the prestigious L.A Area Emmy Award. In 2002 the Series on L.A.’s War Against Terrorism won the Emmy in the same category and was the first time ever that an independently produced, public access program had been honored, besting other nominees from KNBC, KTLA and KOCE at the time.

Since 1992 the Full Disclosure Network® has been produced by Emmy Award winning host Leslie Dutton and Producer T. J. Johnston. In 2002 the Full Disclosure® special series “L. A.’s War Against Terrorism” was recognized by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences with a local Emmy Award for a public affairs, informational series. Channels and airtimes can be found on the website.

THE ONLY REALITY NEWS PROGRAM: Full Disclosure® Debuts in Las Vegas, Video Report (8 Min)

Had enough of Britney Spears? Tired of Paris Hilton? Want a contrast with the fluff news programming on every day television? You must be ready for the only “Reality News Program” The Full Disclosure Network® has been delivering “the news behind the news” featuring the REAL people discussing and debating the REAL issues with the REAL leaders.

Watch Now:

Two minute video on our activities at NATPE 2008, (National Association of Television Programming Executives) Followed by a one minute backgrounder on “Who We Are” then, followed by a 5 minute video screener showing the “Best of Full Disclosure”

Find out about why Full Disclosure Network:

• Is so different and unique
• Why the program motivates viewers into thinking, reasoning and taking action to make our Representative Democracy work.
• The 8-10 minute Video News Blogs or the full length half hour and hour programs
• How Full Disclosure Network® involves the audience with opinion-poll surveys and video blog postings
• The interactive nature of the shows involves people in the actual discussions.