What is Ideastream trying to hide so badly they allow staff to break Ohio law?
[note - I sent this post to all Ideastream staff, so before anyone calls me a spammer, it’s not spam unless the sender is using false or misleading address info. I’m obviously not. In big-time journalism speak it’s called a “press release”, which is the only thing that keeps lazy “journalists” like Mark Smukler busy.]
A commenter notes…
Are there any alternatives to WCPN for decent news and broadcasting in the Cleveland area? I listen to them all the time because I enjoy their programming; but I’ll not be making any more monetary pledges to their station if Mark Smukler and the asshole posting here are illustrative of their staff. Is Smukler as creepy in person as he comes across in the video?
Answer - yes on all counts. WKSU, 89.7. Same NPR coverage. And better local coverage.
This all began when Mark Smukler refused to reveal the source of a fax which was used to discredit me in 2006. What the hell is so important about that source that Mark Smukler makes a repeated jackass out of himself on video? And what the hell is so important about that source that Ideastream allows one of its staff to leave menacing threats on my blog which are a criminal offense under Ohio law?
ORC Ann. § 2903.211 Menacing by stalking.
(A) (1) No person by engaging in a pattern of conduct shall knowingly cause another person to believe that the offender will cause physical harm to the other person or cause mental distress to the other person.
(2) No person, through the use of any electronic method of remotely transferring information, including, but not limited to, any computer, computer network, computer program, or computer system, shall post a message with purpose to urge or incite another to commit a violation of division (A)(1) of this section.
I mean, COME ON, already. What possible source of that fax is so important, that Ideastream will jeopardize listenership, donations, and their reputation, to protect the source? That source was not used in any reporting, so there’s no privelege to protect. There’s only a source to protect.
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Tags: freetimes, ideastream, mark smukler, wcpn
June 9th, 2008 at 4:57 pm
Tim, can you be a bigger loser? You’re such a goddamned liar, it’s pathetic. I guess you’re really making your similarly-just-as-stupid “friends” on the internet proud, huh? I can hear it now from your blogging boneheads:
“You tell them, Tim! That’s right — you tell them what you think — using your keyboard and typing out those words, you tough guy you”
“Tim, you make us proud. Too bad I am over the age of majority or I’d meet you behind the GetGo for a handjob.”
If you had any balls (that aren’t already bouncing around from hand-to-hand since you can not get a REAL women — or anyone above the age of 18), you’d say it to people in person. Oops. I forgot. If you step foot around Playhouse Square, you could be arrested (by the way, nice pic, you tool. You look like a CLASSIC PEDOPHILE!)
But since you’re an unemployed, WHITE-TRASH FELON, I guess this is what your pathetic sorry-self has been regulated to: acting like a total, lying, slanderous/libelous coward behind your computer. Let me take a few minutes to rip you another asshole (as if people haven’t done it enough).
First of all, Mark Smuckler is NOT a journalist. The fact that you continue to refer to him as such (which is not a slap against him) shows how really, really stupid you are (correction: even MORE stupid than you already are). He is a member of management. That’s it. IIRC, he has nothing to do with editorial decisions whatsoever. Do you hear/see him report news? No, you don’t.
Secondly, you have not provided one solid piece of SUBSTANTIATED AND/OR DOCUMENTED PROOF behind your ongoing accusations that it is an Ideastream employee. Perhaps it is. Perhaps it’s someone not employed there, but enjoying seeing you go more postal than you already are in real life, since you DO have some mental deficiencies. As it has been pointed out to you, that IP address you posted is a public network (i.e. Yahoo, AOL, etc). So, your constant whining just makes you look like the bigger idiot with each letter you type.
In addition, as has been pointed out to you as well, the company can not do anything to any employee who is OFF THE CLOCK and not using COMPANY computers/networks to make you squeal like the whining little biotch that you are on here. If someone, by chance, is an employee and they are doing this on THEIR time, using their own computer, the company can not do a damn thing about it. But I DO know that a couple of employees have talked to attorneys about your emails because you have been asked (kindly) by some employees to stop emailing them and you have continued. THAT IS SPAM!!
It is just like trespassing. If you are in a building/on someone else’s property and you are asked to leave and you refuse, you are therefore considered trespassing. ORC 2911.21(A) states in pertinent part, that “No person, without privilege to do so, shall do any of the following:
(1) Knowingly enter or remain on the land or premises of another;
(2) Knowingly enter or remain on the land or premises of another, the use of which is lawfully restricted to certain persons, purposes, modes, or hours, when the offender knows the offender is in violation of any such restriction or is reckless in that regard;
(3) Recklessly enter or remain on the land or premises of another, as to which notice against unauthorized access or presence is given by actual communication to the offender, or in a manner prescribed by law, or by posting in a manner reasonably calculated to come to the attention of potential intruders, or by fencing or other enclosure manifestly designed to restrict access;
Did you notice some KEY legal language there? You were CLEARLY in violation of several provisions of CRIMINAL TRESPASSING under Ohio law. I have heard there are several witnesses and security footage. Your so-called “footage” can easily be knocked down in court. I know, I have cleaned the courtroom floors with people like you & your video cameras. In fact, there could even be a charge of AGGRAVATED TRESPASS (ORC 2911.211) against you since you knew you did not belong there, nor did you have permission to be there either. Plus, the fact you have some documented mental problems can give ANYONE reason to believe you could/would cause them physical harm.
I can’t help but laugh that the so-called “attorney” (whoever he is and whatever alley he practices out of) had the stupidity to cite that statute that has no relevance here. You are NOT being physically threatened. Obviously that so-called “attorney” is so bad at what he does, that he’s been defeated many times (actually he has and I’ve witnessed it, IIRC). Any attorney worth their salt (which would immediately eliminate you and that other wannabe) knows there are sanctions to be had for filing frivolous lawsuits.
But since someone alot more educated and successful than you and that other guy playing attorney is currently on here cleaning your FELONIOUS CLOCK, I’ll continue. Let’s also review a few other charges that can be cited against you.
ORC 2917.21(A)(5), (B), which state in pertinent part:
“(A) No person shall knowingly make or cause to be made a telecommunication, or knowingly permit a telecommunication to be made from a telecommunications device under the person’s control, to another, if the caller does any of the following:
(5) Knowingly makes the telecommunication to the recipient of the telecommunication, to another person at the premises to which the telecommunication is made, or to those premises, and the recipient or another person at those premises previously has told the caller not to make a telecommunication to those premises or to any persons at those premises;
(B) No person shall make or cause to be made a telecommunication, or permit a telecommunication to be made from a telecommunications device under the person’s control, with purpose to abuse, threaten, or harass another person.”
ORC 2917.21 (2) states: “A violation of division (A)(1), (2), (3), or (5) or (B) of this section is a misdemeanor of the first degree on a first offense and a felony of the fifth degree on each subsequent offense.”
You should be VERY VERY familiar of crimes and penalties related to using your computer, shouldn’t you, Tim? After all, you were busted on several charges, including importuning along with other crimes against a child, weren’t you? You would think one (if they were smart enough) would step away from the computer and watch your step, but you continue to prove how stupid pedophiles like you are. You just can’t stay away. And the public has no sympathy towards low-life’s like you who don’t deserve a minute more on this planet, as indicated by a recent letter to the Free Times:
http://www.freetimes.com/stories/15/57/russo-still-doesnt-get-it
That reader was right: “Russo Still Doesn’t Get It” (I’ll avoid the cheap shot at your sorry, chickenshit ass this time around). You don’t get it. Because you’re a goddamned moron.
By the way, aren’t you supposed to stay clean for a period of time since being released? Can’t your sorry, trailer-park, white-trash, unemployed ass wind up back in jail given you already served time for a FELONY??? Are you THAT retarded, Tim?
Let’s not forget that a DEFAMATION TORT could be brought against you for your NUMEROUS intentional misrepresentations against a person and/or persons you have been distributing throughout Northeast Ohio and the US. That’s NOT including any possible SLANDER suit that can be leveled against you.
Oh…and ideastream is NOT losing listeners or money. I highly doubt them or any organization caters to the UNEMPLOYED, LOSER DEMOGRAPHIC that you and that so-called dumbass, I mean “commentator” you cited you both comfortably fall into. Unless your parents are giving you an allowance hoping — one day — their embarrassing, pathetic and mooching child will get out of the house and be able to move into a trailer park somewhere in Barberton or Garfield Hts.
Why do you want to know who sent that fax? Is it so you can harass them, like you do everybody else? Is that how goddamn cowards like you play? It is OK for losers like you to do it, but when someone comes along and plays the game better than you douchebags do, you get all pissy?
Listen ASSHOLE (and other “friends” and “defenders” of this piece of shit, white-trash loser): you douchebags can’t handle it. I can play the game and kick your ass to Columbus and back at this game. The fact that you sit in your parent’s basement, in your ’stained” Fruit-Of-The-Looms, listening to the Bread’s Greatest Hits (remastered) acting all tough shows what a goddamn coward you are.
Get your balls out of your mouth and/or hand and put up or STFU, loser.
June 9th, 2008 at 5:13 pm
sue me. go right ahead. i dare ya. not holding my breath.
because that would require you to stop being an anonymous bile-spitting commenter who uses an IP proxy to post from multiple anonymous IP addresses.
everything i have put out is documented in video. all emails sent to Ideastream staff are entirely legal and sent only to make Ideastream staff aware of this absurd situation, one of whom is posting threats on this blog.
if you have a problem with the video, perhaps you can sue YouTube and get them to pull it off their servers. that requires you to use your real name. but it’s all true, it’s all legal video, and you’ll lose. i may be smart, but i’m not that good at video editing.
as for defamation, truth is an absolute defense. that’s what i have. whatever you have, even in this comment, is defamatory. so bring it. i’ll remind you that courts usually require someone to show their real name and face.
if you like representing Ideastream anonymously, with illegal threats, and the gutter mouth of a thug, go right ahead. Ideastream is the one who pays, not me. but if you decide to come out from behind your multiple screen names, and your multiple proxy IP addresses which use the same computer, you need to know that courts generally require you to use your real name.
dumb ass.