Example of why residents MUST have the ability to initiate issue forums on GOVERNMENT CHANNEL

Friday night schedule
AS PUBLISHED:
8:00 p.m. City View

8:30 p.m. Fayetteville School Board Position 2 Candidate Forum
9:30 p.m. Special Water & Sewer Public Discussion On Mt. Sequoyah
Pressure Plane: August 21
11:30 p.m. Gulley Park Summer Concert Series 2008: Oreo Blue

REALITY:
The Mt. Sequoyah special meeting on the pressure plane DID NOT RUN.
Instead, a promotional tour by the city council on the master plan for the Fayetteville Junction area of south Fayetteville.
Following that was a variation from the gavel-to-gavel coverage normal for coverage of city meetings with a set number of reruns. Someone had to request it. A recent planning-commission meeting was pulled out and played to promote the building of the Southpass "regional park." There may be a basis for claiming that this partial-meeting cablecast was unbiased because the three people who attended and spoke against this massive sprawl project were included. However, this was not a true, public forum initiated at the request of opponents of the environmentally destructive project.
It was a clear piece of propaganda in support of a project is widely questioned and criticized by the public.