Tatum says six ad agencies control placements and favor TV and radio

And then the Adams administration came in.

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And we saw it weaponized.

We saw it used to some people's advantage and some people's very much disadvantage.

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That wasn't really talked about here, but it really was used as a weapon.

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And also, we saw advertising dwindle.

we saw it cut nearly in half.

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And while it has been talked about that we've seen in the Mabdami administration, it

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get even further hit.

That is absolutely true, but it started even before that.

And the Office of Community and Ethnic Media, while it serves a very important purpose, it's not the one that actually places the advertising.

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It helps us answer questions.

It helps us navigate.

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But it's not their responsibility to actually place the advertising.

The one that does that is the advertising agencies.

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And that's who we really need to be looking at.

Those advertising agencies, those six agencies,

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are the ones that I think we really need to be investigating.

Because those six advertising agencies are the ones that have the contracts with the city.

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Those are the ones that have bid for those contracts, who have the deal with the city that goes on till, I think most of them go on till, I think,

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2029, who usually go with the lowest hanging fruit, whatever's easiest for them.

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And most times that is television and radio.

And that's where a lot of times the local press

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both web

sites and print media get left out.

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Now, the agencies themselves, as you rightly said, sometimes they also get lazy, and I'm talking about the city agencies, and they don't want to do the work.

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And it's our responsibility as publishers to be going out there and telling them that we're here and that we exist.

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And it's the responsibility of the Office of Community and Ethnic Media to help us do that.

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And I think having this hearing when you did was a disadvantage for that office because Mazin is so new.

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He does not have all the answers yet because he has been put in a spot that's untenable.

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Because he did not put any of this into play.

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He just got here.

And he is not responsible for anything that has happened to date.

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And I think that was very unfair.

And I just had to put that on the record because I think he's on the side of all of us and wants to do the best that he can.

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The administration, however, and I know he is now part of this administration, they have some explaining to do.

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He can't do that explaining for us because he does not have that information yet and cannot talk for any

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anything that happened before he got here.

So thank you, and also the law itself needs to be strengthened, and only the council can do that.

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So thank you very much.

Thank you.

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