[Peace-discuss] Re: UPTV's unexpected ally?

[Karen Medina]

David Green wrote:
>   After watching this, I was left clueless about the
>   implications of what happened. It's really hard to
>   keep focused on what these folks are saying.

It was another thrilling evening listening to public comments on the UPTV issue 
of Brumleve's video library.

I think it ended with the Urbana City Council saying they will decide next week if 
anything is to be done. 

Urbana's lawyer's report, which was given to the council members, might be 
released to the public. It includes some research about freedom of speech, 
among other information.

Todd is working on finding counter collections to sandwich the Brumleve 
collection. Evidently "sandwich" means to have counter speech before and after 
the other speech. 1/2 an hour on each side. 

Some suggestions include:
* Sandwiching the offensive material -- in order to provide "a balance"
* Moving the offensive material to 3am (lawsuit)
* Disallowing 3rd party material (loose some good stuff, including educational)
* Changing the PEG to just EG (as it is in Champaign). P is for Public. E is for 
educational. G is for government.
* Moving P to another channel and a different location -- and including more 
technical help to produce local stuff.

There were other suggestions. 

-karen medina