This week’s print edition of Seven Days is our 2013 media issue — which you should also read on your iPhone or iPad with our new free app.
- Vermont’s public-access TV channels may have big funding challenges as they face a possible “doomsday scenario.”
- The state is home to lots of nationally famous journalists. Meet seven of them.
- State-run Vermont Life magazine is losing hundreds of thousands of dollars a year, but the publisher says he has a plan to turn it around.
- Burlington College film instructor Rick Winston has spent years researching a Burlington newspaper’s role in McCarthy era witch hunts.
- Vermont food writers are flocking to the blogosphere.
- The Chester Telegraph brings online news to small-town Vermont.
- Media outlets and the ACLU are fighting to improve public records law — and Gov. Peter Shumlin is behind them.
- In non-media news, as the Legislature considers a three-year wind moratorium, we parse the polls to find out if Vermonters really support “industrial wind.”
- And in Fair Game, Paul Heintz analyzes the evolution of Sen. Philip Baruth, rabble-rouser, to Sen. “Phil Baruth,” political insider.
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Quick point about the public access article: the article makes it seem like cable subscribers are paying for PEG channels and centers directly in their cable bills, which isn’t strictly true. The state of Vermont requires Comcast and other cable providers to pay the franchise fees that support PEG centers and channels as part of their Certificates of Public Good. Comcast then chooses to add a line-item on the cable bill portioning out what the company thinks the subscriber’s share of that is, but the cable companies are required to pay the fees regardless of how they crunch the numbers. Adding the line-item is the cable provider’s way of trying to appear to pass the cost onto the subscriber, but the fees are calculated as a percentage of total revenue, so it’s a little tricky of them to put it in the bill like that. Shorter version – your cable bill is no larger than it would be if PEG did not exist.