Skills like cameraman, editor and line producer are real, marketable job skills that give needed opportunities to our most disadvantaged youth. Fourth, you totally dodged the free-speech issue. Divergent views can still be heard. For example, gay and lesbian shows find a home there, as well as shows about incest survivors, alternate cultures like Islam and Bahai, STD clinics, black and Hispanic community organizations, and many others. These shows are all threatened by the upcoming cuts.
Access television is a public forum, much like an Internet chat group.
If you knew some basic things about public access, you would realize that the whole point is that there is no censorship. Neither Vel Wiley, nor the board, nor the staff can affect program content in any way. Even if a producer goes to jail for his content, it is purely his affair. Any of these, or dozens of others, could be next on the national scene. The Shepherd should be fighting to have the funding restored and covering this tragedy in-depth as facilitators are laid off, programs are cut and our free speech is further eroded.