Red Hook Star Review's George Fiala urges MOECM to advise communities and Council
Fiala says he publishes the Red Hook Star Review and Village Star Review and has been in the business since the Koch administration. He praises Sidahmed but says MOECM should help communities and Council members understand how to reach residents across legacy and social media.
Hello, my name is George Fiala.
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I'm a publisher of two papers, one, the Red Hook Star Review in Brooklyn, and one, the Village Star Review in Lower Manhattan.
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And I've been in the business, actually, since the Koch administration.
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I'm not here today to ask for anything, but I would like to give my perspective on how I think MOECM should be handled.
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And I want to also say that Mazin is an unbelievably great hire.
I'm also on the...
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Executive committee of Nycolum, which is a group of New York City-based print and community and ethnic media.
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In any case, and we were introduced to Mazin at City Hall, I also want to say that since Nycolum got us connected with City Hall,
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What I'm trying to say is that even what they call the earned media, we weren't involved in.
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In other words, the mayor did not put us on the press list or whatever, but now we met a woman named Dakota, who is wonderful.
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So I have good things to say about Dakota at the press office and Mazin.
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But what I would like to say is last week in Red Hook, Brooklyn, we had a community meeting that was sponsored by our councilwoman, Alexa.
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And it was about how to use money that EDC was able to kind of, it was kind of like,
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a bribe that the community got some money to do with what we thought was right.
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And like many things, I mean, I publish an old fashioned newspaper, we have a website, we have newsletters, but everybody puts stuff on Instagram and Facebook.
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So I saw the meeting announcement on Facebook, and I called up Alexa and I said, listen,
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This would be perfect for our paper because it's a local thing.
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And she said, well, we don't have any budget for that.
It's an EDC thing, and you'd have to talk to them.
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Talking to EDC is like not something you can do.
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But the MOECM, to me,
They should go to all the communities and have people understand what people are reading, how to reach people, whether it's on whatever social media or legacy media or whatever it is, and then advise
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to be a resource for the council people to say, listen, we have something going on.
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How do we get it out there?
That should be another part of what MOECM should do, a resource for the city council.
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