Friday, April 24, 2015

The following  taken from Gary's Blog...or is it Olga's?

THE UCO REPORTER BEGS: SAVE US FROM BECOMING ANOTHER PENNYSAVER.
Under the direction of Joy vestal and co-editor Myron Silverman, the UCO Reporter has lost its purpose.  The UCO bylaws state: the intent of the UCO Reporter is to keep the unit owners informed on matters of common interest. This is no longer the case. . They have now become a venue to reap as much money as they can from advertisers to seduce CV residents to purchase and use services they do not need or are interested in.  Before this, deadly duo entered the Reporter domain, the UCO Reporter was a means providing pertinent information to its readers. It has now become a newspaper of page turning pictures.   We can no longer depend on gaining any valuable information or any knowledge to advance our thinking; opinions contrary to the present administration are banned. The  absence of a UCO reporter  at the recent  Town Hall meeting of the Messenger Club which sponsored former County Commisioner Jess Santamaria and Inspector General John Carey shows  us how clearly the reporter is intellectually starving our residents. The main topic of the meeting was perpetuity in relation to the development of the golf course. More than 200 residents attended yet no one from the UCO reporter was there to cover this important event.   Now the UCO Reporter asked and the Officers have voted to approve funding $975.00 per month to hire an AD WORKFLOW COORDINATOR to increase AD revenue. They claim they need the money to keep the reporter from becoming another Penny saver, really? What do they think the UCO Reporter filled with ads will become; a Penny saver, of course.   
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  2. While I worked at the UCO Reporterfor several years, I do remember hearing Joy Vestal say" We do not have enough articles written and I do not want this to become a "Pennysaver:" Well guess what if they hire someone to keep looking for ads for our paper and they do not have enough editorial because the co-editor Joy Vestal will only print one side of a story and won't print the other side, then isn't that going to be a Pennysave with more and more ads! Or even maybe they will fill the paper with pictures who knows, maybe the shadow.. Folks, we cannot win with these people in office.
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  3. Here is MY REPLY:
  4.    Joy ALWAYS complained about the the paper becoming a Pennysaver. You have heard it and so has everyone else in that office. I have also made the same complaint! 
  5. Marilyn, you and I know that Joy has been more than fair for a long time, and printed both sides of a story, that is until someone comes into the office and threatens her and calls her a "f*cking c*nt". Personally, in her position, I wouldn't accept ANYTHING from that person either.
  6. As for the Reporter not covering the Messanger Club, they made it VERY CLEAR long ago, that the Reporter was not welcomed in their meetings, especially me. Whenever I came to one of their meetings with a camera or video, I was told I could not take pictures nor video their meetings. So their complaint that it was not covered is totally invalid.
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  1. UnknownApril 25, 2015 at 7:33 AM

    The blog is hereby claimed. it is NOT Olga's Blog, nor is it Gary's Blog. It is the Peoples Blog. It belongs to the Residents of Century Village..
    Now as for allowing you to take photos and Videos? Sure, But only in a way that is unobtrusive.You are a poor photographer if you think that the way to take pictures is to be the Center of attention.

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  2. Lanny HoweApril 25, 2015 at 9:38 AM

    Hi Bob,
    Your answers to Gary are right on in my view. Anyone can call his blog "the people's blog," Dave, Gary, Olga or whoever. Those who read the blog and attempt to contribute may know better. As I see it now, the two blogs are polarized. There is little point in my going into the reasons for this, I think. Most of us are well aware of the blogs' histories.

    As for our coeditors "selling out" to the Reporter becoming a Pennysaver, that is nonsense from my dealings with Myron and Joy, and for that matter, with the prior editors I have worked under. The editors have always been very conscious of keeping a balance between articles and ads. It is a fair warning, however—we don't want that to happen.

    The newspaper has grown, not only in size but in quality, I think most readers would agree. Is it perfect? No. Do things get out of balance? Of course, but in the main they are corrected. That is normal.

    Outsourcing the collection and placement of the major ads is not the first time we have outsourced. A few years ago, we changed from having an in-house paid person electronically lay out the pages to having an outside do this. When that didn't work out too well, we engaged Gregg Cox's professional team on the West Coast to do this for us, and they've done very well. We feel confident as they undertake the ad collection and placement job they will do well at this, too. If it doesn't, we can put a fast stop to the arrangement. One needs to bear in mind, as Ken Graff has pointed out, that in this electronic age there is no difference between a writer (such as myself) communicating from my apartment with the Reporter shop and Gregg communicating from Sarasota. The transmissions take only seconds.

    Just because the Reporter is now headed in the "outsourcing" direction does not mean we might not change in the future. Times change and circumstances change, and we might find down the road we CAN go back to doing more in-house and that it would once again be advantageous. I feel sure the Reporter will adjust if that becomes the case.

    The discussion at the recent Officers' Meeting about this was a healthy one, I thought. The charge that Joy and Myron are selling us out, however, is over the top.





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  3. Bob's BlogApril 25, 2015 at 9:40 AM

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  4. Bob's BlogApril 25, 2015 at 9:52 AM

    Lanny, you are correct. The charges are over the top, and to top it off, it comes from Idiots that have no clue how to do the job. They publish a little newsletter full of garbage, lies and half truths and then criticize the Reporter? They have NO CLUE on how to run the paper. NONE. They think that their new savior, Neil is going to step in and run the paper and channel 63. Hint, hint... he doesn't know either...but he sure can pull the wool... over the eyes and down to the feet. A natural.

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