Whitewater’s public access cable station has a spiffy new website: www.whitewatertv.org. I have a link to it on the left sidebar of FREE WHITEWATER. Recording public meetings is one way to assure an accurate and honest description of meetings and events. A camera or tape recorder tells an honest tale.
There are good newspapers and television stations in Wisconsin, surely. Yet, Whitewater is a small place, and honest newspapers and televison stations haven’t time enough to report on all that happens in town.
Worse still, we are afflicted with more than one newspaper that simply reports officials’ statements unquestioningly. Recordings of public meetings allow residents to see what really happens.
Wisconsin law also allows residents to record meetings themselves, under the Wisconsin Open Meetings Law, Wis. Stat. ss. 19.81-19.98, but that’s a worthy topic for another day.
For today, it’s enough to be happy for anything that advances an accurate account of public proceedings in Whitewater.