Wednesday, February 06, 2008

Paula Maes. It's Just The Way She Rolls.

I have stumbled across an interesting blog post
from the American Journalism Review. link

In 2002, Gloria Tristani was running for the U S Senate
here in New Mexico.

At the time, Tristani was a member of
the Federal Communications Commission.

At that time, the commission was considering a plan to license hundreds of tiny, low-power radio stations across the country.

The broadcast industry (Paula Maes) hated this.

It's main lobbying arm,
the National Association of Broadcasters,
a la New Mexico Broadcasters Association,
of which Paula Maes is the President and CEO,
was threatening ... dire measures.

Broadcasters were "taking off the gloves,"
the NAB's president warned.

Tristani
told the writer Charles Layton, writing for the AJR,
that Jerry Danziger, vice chair of Albuquerque's KOB-TV and
board member of the New Mexico Broadcasters Association,
told her,
"If you're coming back here to run for Congress, you'd better not vote for low power, because you won't get on a radio or TV station again."
Tristani said Danziger made the threat twice, once to a member of her staff and a second time to her personally.

Danziger says he doesn't recall making such a threat.

Maes confirmed to Layton that the statement was made.

And then and "she refused to name" the broadcaster
who made the threat.



It is the "refused to name him" that bugs this reporter.


Albuquerque Public Schools Board of Education President
Paula Maes
also refuses to name,

(by refusing allow the impartial audit which
would name)

even one of the corrupt and incompetent
administrators and board members in the leadership of the APS.

"I will not allow an audit
which will identify individual administrators
"... like Tom Savage for example ..."
... and allow them to be held personally accountable
for their conduct and competence as public servants,
within their public service."

Paula Maes (derived)



Honor above all else, except of course,


the interests of members of the good ole boys club;

the "privileged class" here in River City.

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