Thursday, November 20, 2008
Dallas City Council will no longer broadcast public comments
Be it the public or the council members themselves, there are all kinds of people who don't add much to the council meetings.
At the end of Dallas City Council meetings, the public is allowed time to address the council, something that often turns into a yelling/ranting/raving session. That section of the meeting, however, will no longer be broadcast on radio, tv, or city hall's website with the rest of the meeting. While no council members or city staff would say why, Caraway pointed out that they couldn't control what language might get broadcast and then he said something about the kids and bad words and whatnot.
Posted by Erin
Email
|
Print
|
6 Comments
|
Contribute
|
-
»Dallas City Council member Ron Natinsky announces regional center
-
»Former Mayor Pro Tem Don Hill and his wife are convicted in City Hall corruption trial
-
»Dallas City Council denies HIV/AIDS funding, opens door to higher infection rate
-
»Dallas council passes booting ordinance in favor of Deep Ellum community activists
-
»Dallas City Council members visiting schools on Monday, August 24
|
an event
|
a restaurant
|
|
a garage sale
|
a drink special
|
|
a movie showtime
|
local music
|
a job
|
a house
|
|
a deal
|
a pet
|
- »Favoriting contest: South Pacific at the Winspear
- »In defense of the Dallas Morning News' new GM plan
- »Free your mind, and the rest will follow
- »Commenting contest: Home for the Holidays Musical at Palace Theatre Arts Center in Grapevine
- »Special event: Join Teresa for a special Chef's Tasting at Masaryk
Chris Kidd, says:
Thats the best part of the meetings, when you get the crazy old folks living in fair park yelling about how whitey is keeping them down by not fixing a 30' deep pothole in the street or white "po-lease" officers getting lost when trying to find their house to help them out instantally makes them members of the Klan. I swear, all those folks need is tinfoil hats to complete their crazy person ensemble
BTW, doesnt caraway and leppert have another droopy pants rally to organize??
Verified
1 year agoLink to this comment | Suggest removal
joemcl, says:
This is really unfortunate. It would be easy to do a slight time delay of the broadcast, and bleep out any "bad words" uttered by public commenters, as many radio and TV call-in shows do.
Anonymous
1 year agoLink to this comment | Suggest removal
Travis Bush, says:
Eh...and just when they bought those plasma screens...I guess visitors will have to settle for images filtering from the sewage plant...totally art if you ask me.
Verified
1 year agoLink to this comment | Suggest removal
Scott Doyle, says:
In his heart of hearts he's thinking of the children, Erin. At least SOMEBODY is (albeit a politician's sham excuse). =p
Verified
1 year agoLink to this comment | Suggest removal
ch0, says:
Listening to those meetings on WRR is audible torture.
Anonymous
1 year agoLink to this comment | Suggest removal
alexander troup, says:
I did learn how to be come an Amercian citizen after the many years of having listen to such..repleate and empty silence,one person who had faded from that broadcast was... Al Libscomb, while Larua Miller made the program here here own art show..oh well time to go home, down here at City Hall, by the urban market, time to ride my bike and catch the bus..... until then,A/T....DOWNTOWN.
Verified
1 year agoLink to this comment | Suggest removal