Posts by Jann Scott
Capt. Underpants restrained: Boulder Cop stalks: CU kid goes to St.Penn
21 week ago
I can’t believe the city of Boulder “could possibly be so obtuse “ to try to get an Order of Protection (restraining order) on Seth Brigham. Their last go around with him cost us the tax payer $10,000. This one will cost me and you more. The Boulder Police department wants not part of this or they would have charged him with misdemeanor harassment. Even so the city has ordered a
police officer to be at every council meeting to keep Brigham at bay. The cops interfered with Seths’ free speech just once and it cost the city ten grand. They are not likely to do it again. So now the city is trying to get a permanent restraining order in civil county court. But the rules of first amendment free speech still apply. They apply to the city and to city staff and council members more than they apply to a private citizen.
police officer to be at every council meeting to keep Brigham at bay. The cops interfered with Seths’ free speech just once and it cost the city ten grand. They are not likely to do it again. So now the city is trying to get a permanent restraining order in civil county court. But the rules of first amendment free speech still apply. They apply to the city and to city staff and council members more than they apply to a private citizen.
In fact the city council chambers are the most protected space fro free speech in the land except for the court house lawn which is even more protected free speech. Legally, Brigham cannot be banned from speaking at city council meetings. He cannot be banned from emailing council members and he cannot be banned from writing about them, calling them or trying to talk to them.
This situation will bring out every constitutional attorney in Colorado to defend Seth. In the past The city of Boulders own attorney Ariel Calonne spelled this out in detail to both me and my civil rights attorney David Lane. Lane happens to be Seths attorney as well. This all started with Seth when the fascist dictates of the council barred Seth from speaking on public access TV. Seth has not forgotten and they are all paying for their sins now. Every issue surrounding this case is purely first amendment. It is all constitutional. It is all about the public’s right to know.
In this case the council really deserves Seth and they really deserved to be slapped with a heavy law suit and a reprimand by me. “What the fuck are idiots trying now??”
Meanwhile, back at the Boulder Police department , they are having their own troubles. Seems a head injured officer went nuts and tried to kill his ex-girlfriend and her knew boyfriend. The officer was injured several years ago trying to arrest a drunk in the Sink who was refusing to pay a bar tab. The officer had been on leave with pay when his stalking and attempted murder charges were filed just 3 days before Seths.
To make all of this more interesting, in the very same week a Judge sentenced the college kid who injured the officer to two years in the State penitentiary. won’t that be fun for him.
from Boulder Colorado
“where the hits keep right on rollin”
Jann Scott
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Four Mile Fire in Boulder could have ended up like the North Fork fire : loss of life
22 weeks ago
If it weren’t for the early actions by the Boulder County sheriff the Four Mile Fire surely would have ended in loss of life. That seems lost on this community still to this day. Just how dangerous that fire was needs to be examined.
I have had some experience covering Forrest fires. They now call them wild land fire, but I prefer forest fires when they are in the trees. In the 80′s I covered the Black Tiger Fire which destroyed over 40 beautiful homes up on sugar loaf. I covered the Yellow Stone park fire and most shockingly the Storm King Fire near Aspen where 13 smoke jumpers lost their lives. So I knew just how rapidly a fast moving forest fire could kill people.
When the ferociousness flames of the Four Mile Fire hit on Sunday morning Labor Day weekend 2010, I new we were in big trouble. I was up on flagstaff Mountain when it started, talking with a city of boulder Parks open space officer. I could hear all the radio traffic coming in to his truck radio. He had about 7 channels going. The most frightening ones were all of the fire crew channels.
It was bad. People were running for their lives. Fire crews were running for their lives. And the fire was running right up the mountain buring everything in its path. The fire had started at about 10:30am, but by noon I knew we had lost over 100 homes and the winds were still blowing. I got out my laptop and started to write.
The fire had crested Sunshine Canyon road and was on the move down the other side. As a reporter I started reporting what I heard and saw from Flagstaff. Boulder OEM hadn’t opened yet, and I could not get any assistance or information officially on the fire. I decided, to hell with it and not wait. First why wait? Secondly this fire was a potential killer.
I sat in the Boulder Channel 1 TV production truck and then did our first video from Flagstaff with the fire as a back drop at 11:30. Donna Marek, one of our reporters wrote the first story at 11:10. She was talking with fire crews from Downtown Boulder. Ron Baird our news editor called me on my cell and had the first report from the city at 11:40 . He filed the second story.
Ron Donna and I talked about how serious this was. It was decided that I should post the life threatening stories based on what I heard on the radio and let resident know this was a fire storm and get the hell off the mountain. Before I did, I talked with Patrick Vonkeyserling, the city PIO. He told me he couldn’t confirm anything, but it was really really bad and that if i could use social Media: ie Twitter and our on line news paper, it would help get the word out to people up on sunshine.
With that I started posting stories and updates: ”People are running for their lives” “We are going to burn to death” “3 feared missing dead” “possible corpses found near burned out Car” Over 30 updates in the first 3 hours.
The idea was to shock people into leaving their homes and not wait. People from Sunshine and the surrounding area started to tweet and call me. “should we leave?” were the questions. “Yes I replied , get out now”. People on twitter said don’t listen to us, that we were fear mongering. To witch I replied get out now or burn to death in your homes. Ron Baird called me and said.
“fuck the people on twitter just keep reporting what is going on.”
In the aftermath of Four Mile Fire , the Four Mile fire chief thanked me for our aggressive coverage early on. You helped us evacuate people he told me one day over coffee at Great Harvest Bread.
But I had taken a lot of flack from the Twitter community following the fire. At the time I was really upset by their reaction, but now I realize they were just upset viewers and readers who had no idea or access to what was really happening up in Fourmile. I did. I had a direct line to dispatch, OEM, Sheriffs, the Forrest service and I was sitting in a city open space truck taking it all in from a vantage point. I never should have paid any attention to twitter.
During the days of the fire, Boulder chief, Larry Donner told me that the fire was moving up to 40 miles per hour early on and was spreading embers the size of house shingles 1 mile in front of the flames. He said most people go into denial and under react and that’s when they get killed. He also told me it was good that I scared the hell out of everybody and made them move during the early stages.
He said, as did the Sunshine chief , the people on twitter were wrong to criticize you. “You did the right thing even though there were no deaths. “You scared people into action and that is what’s needed in a fast moving wild land fire. But criticism comes with the territory.” he said.
The sheriff was criticized for cutting the power all over the mountain area. He wanted people uncomfortable and he wanted them to get out! The truth is it is a damn wonder people didn’t lose their lives in that fire. Yep, we caused fear and shock in our reporting. We intended to. Hopefully, we helped save some lives. The alternaticve to agressive evacuations is what happened at the North Fork Fire. In hind sight we’d report it the same all over again.
I had apologized to the twitter people for a week. But it did no good. They had their minds made up. We did our jobs at Boulder channel 1. Thanks from the fire departments was icing on the cake.
Interesting Ron Baird who is a seasoned editor and Donna Marek a seasoned reporter, kept telling me. “Don’t listen to Twitter, they don’t know what you know. Just keep telling the story as it unfolds.”
Jann Scott’s Journal
from Boulder Colorado
for more on Fourmile fire go to http://c1n.tv/boulderchannel1/category/news/fires-foods-snow/
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US War in Middle East not winnable unless total war declared
03 weeks ago
Well that’s an awesome headline…statement…concept. It is not a new one, certainly not radical. It is the reality of subduing an enemy. Total war. All out war. Conquest…surrender.. occupation and re education.
You may say this sound like madness. Or ask what the hell are you talking about?
You won’t be saying that if radical Islamic elements of a middle eastern country drops several real nukes on American cities. Imagine seeing New York city in flames after a middle eastern 
Muslim country detonates a high powered nuke in lower manhattan and renders half of the eastern seaboard uninhabitable.??
Then what I am saying won’t seem so crazy. You will wonder , how could this have happened?.
I am convinced that it will happen. I am also convinced at this point that president Obama has no idea what he is doing or is up against. He reminds me of early attempts by Brittian to negotiate with the Nazis. It was bullshit and caused WWII. I claim we are already in the early stages of WWIII. There is no negotiating with radical Islam. They are bound and determined to destroy the west put us all under Sha’aria law and live in their simple desert world alone while we burn.
So here’s my plan. Afghanistan is a lost cause. We already lost that war. The Taliban have shadow governments in most of its provenances, just waiting for us to leave. Between them and Pakistan they have the money and wherewithal to nuke us and they will when we exit Afghanistan.
Other countries of concern are Iran, actually the whole damn middle east and north Africa and North Korea.
But lets talk about the middle East. If we sent an invasion force to the middle East, conquered them occupied them and drag them kicing and screaming int the 21 century, we may be able to save the world. Otherwise we are going to burn in our homes here in America. When I say an invasion force I am talking about an allied force of 1 or 2 million troops. No fooling around. Occupy every city town mountain and out post and put an end to Afghanistan as it exists right now. Occupy it the way we occupied Japan and Germany after WWI. Build bases there and leave them there. Kill their heroin production and kill anyone who fights us. Then move right across the middle east WWII style. We have been fighting in the middle east since the 1980s and we could have ended this a long time ago. Or we can just stay home and wait for the nukes. It’s a shit sandwich and we are going to have to take a bite.
Also, as far as I am concerned Obama or Romney: they are both the same. neither are capable of leading this country from nuclear annialation. Actuially, they are both cut from the same cloth. Nice guys. Civilized. Unfortunately, there are a bunch of barbarians out there who aim to kill us all, very soon.
So this is well beyond petty American politics.
Watch this WWI channel and see what i mean: http://www.justin.tv/military_history#/w/2969917904/6
Jann Scott
from the land of doom
Boulder Colorado
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My visit to Windsor Castle
01 month ago
Sylvia and I took a day trip up the Thames river to the Royal Castle one summers day in August. Windsor Castle sits on 13 acres in the country in Berkshire county England. Coincidentally, I grew up in the Berkshires in New England not that I lay any claim to royalty or the castle, but a visit to Windsor is awe inspiring.
To give you some perspective, Windsor Castle was originally built by William the Conqueror in the decade after the Norman conquest of 1066. It is surround by the beautiful Windsor park In all it is the size of Boulder….well nearly
Sylvia was American English. She looked very English. We were young in love and on an adventure. She studied fashion design at Bournemouth College. I was a staffer at International Times in London.
The castle is so big it was used as a fortress and was a small town complete with everything for self sustainability. Even today as the Royals official castle and sometime summer home it maintains a staff of 400 just to keep it going.
We were drawn to one part of the castle the Crimson drawing room which stretched on for ever.
And then there was the Kings Bedroom also in crimson.
Anyway, if you do go to England this summer or any summer, do go to Windsor Castle if you want to be blown away. Yes, but go in the summer. The winter is too cold and dreary. and make sure the Royals aren’t there, because they won’t let you in.
From Royal Boulder
Jann Scott
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Jann Scott visits South Beach on the Great American Road Trip
01 month ago
by Jann Scott
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Great American Road Trip visits South Beach Miami Florida on New Years eve and weeks to follow, some of the places that are featured include, The famous Clay Hotel in the Spanish Village, The Jewish Museum of Florida, Beach Scooters, Ocean Drive and Lincoln road shopping centers. Also some of the local restaurants featured are the Moonlight Caffe, Cafe Nuvo, Oh Mexico, and the Hosteria Romana.
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Rex from Boulder came back from Afghanistan and tried to kill himself 3 times
01 month ago
Rex and his girl friend Gina moved to Boulder from Syracuse last August. She is a student at Naropa . Rex has been bouncing around from job to job. He can’t seem to get the war out of his mind.
“We used to go out on misions every night: kicking in doors and shooting or grabbing people. Not every night, but 4 out of 7 nights we were on a mission. It was in ’the Kandar’ (Kandahar Province)” as US Army combat troops like to call it. ” It was horrible” he told me. ” You have no idea. I was a medic and my job was to patch up my friends when they got shot. I can’t get the screaming of my close friends out of my mind. Every night we would go into a building, kick in the doors and kill people. Women, children anyone who was in the line of fire. Our mission was always to grab or kill a Taliban member and if his family got in the
way, so be it. We killed them. Every night. Not just once in a while. My job was to get my wounded guys out of the building and get them on a helicopter. The other members of my squad or platoon put down cover fire and killed anything that moved. ”
These were night time raids not daytime. ” We couldn’t see at night. Okay we had night vision and helos in the sky. They (the Afghans) couldn’t see us for sure. But this was a horrible war where we murdered women and children in the cover of night. No wonder they fucking hate us there.”
Rex served two tours in Afghanistan, was a Sargent, a tank crew chief and finally a medic. He is still on active duty and is completing an 8 year enlistment. “I am supposed to be recuperating here in Boulder. All I’ve been doing is drink, taking drugs and putting my Beretta 9 mil in my mouth trying to get enough courage to kill myself. I don’t want to live with this.
Rex is suposed to be going to the Veterans hospital for PTSD treatment but he misses most appointments. Veteran peer to peer groups have reached out to him repeatedly, but he can’t bare the pain.
“Imagine if every night you and 10,000 other guys went out door to door in Boulder and randomly killed people. Like if you went house to house in your neighborhood, grabbed the men, shot the women and children and then stepped back into the street. … and all you could see up and down Pine street were Humvees, tanks, and 1000′s of US troops doing the same…. wouldn’t you be fucked up?? I am” ” All the noise, shooting, explosions, the smell of excrement and blood…. It was beyond crazy.” That’s what’s going on in Afghanistan. We are no heros. I am not a hero. I am a fucking murderer.”
One night while on a mission, Rex was working on one of his friends who was dying in the street below a building they had just raided. ” I don’t carry an M-16. I’m a medic. I don’t go in with the shock troops. I wait in the street until, God Forbid, one of my buddies get hit.” On this night it happened. ” A huge number of Taliban forces came at us…. I mean there were 2000 of them shooting at 10,000 of us. That is an extraordinary number. They usually come at us in 10s and 20′s. It was their home turf too, so they had the advantage. Anyway, I was working on this guy and when I looked up, all the guys around who were suposed to protect me were gone. And then here comes these little kids running at me screaming and they were all shot dead by some other US troops who were trying to secure the area. In front of me were these little boys and girls all bleeding.
Then came the Taliban fighters who were really pissed off and I reached for my Baretta and shot 3 of them who fell over dead on top of the little kids. For that they gave me a Bronze star. Can you fucking believe that? I wish the fuck they just killed me. There was this dickhead captain running around making everybody kill anyone who came near us. It was a horrible fucked mess. My friends were dead. All these kids were dead. There was screaming, smoke, fire, bombs and blood everywhere. I was covered in blood. We all were.
It is no different than what happened in Vietnam. We need to bring our troops home and get the fuck out of there.”
I first met Rex last summer outside The Cup coffee shop. He recogized me from my TV show. We have kept in touch. I have tried to be a friend or at least some one who will listen. As of today Rex has not killed himself. He went to the Veterans hospital on Friday for his counseling session. His girl friend left him last October. He has no friends. He talked to me on condition of anonymity and asked if I would tell you his story.
Jann Scott
from an outpost where wounded soldiers try to heal
Boulder Colorado
for more information on how to help your Vet or soldier in Boulder contact: Veterans Helping Veterans Now I know them . They are very good.
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Mad Men
01 month ago
“Mad men” is a historical term short for “Madison Avenue” men, coined by the advertising industry itself, in typically self-promotional fashion.” hot word dictionary
Jann Scott's Journal
I grew up in a New England business family. My Grandfather on my fathers side ran an industrial lithographic company. My grand father on my mothers side ran a liquor import business. After the ruination of the depression when my mother and father were married they ” bootstrapped” a landscape firm into regional residential commercial and real estate concern. It grew into several large firms which included banking.
My childhood and youth were shaped by all of this. From an early age my education included all aspects of business. One aspect of business my family seemed to have disdain for were the kind of corporate pinheads represented in the HBO TV series Mad Men. I distinctly remember family meetings in the early 60′s where I was admonished “not to become one of them.” You know the type. The country clubbers, status seekers. ” We work for them. They are our clients” my father would say. “We aren’t one of them and we don’t want to be one of them”
My mother would shun the “women who lunch crowd” ”they drink and gossip” she would say. “I don’t have time for that, I run a company” She was also a devout Catholic and rarely drank. During world War Two while my father fought in the war she ran the company and turned it into an enormous success. When he returned he was shocked that she had tripled it’s growth in two years. These were my business role models.
We ( the Scott family were a family of entrepreneurs) We weren’t 9 to 5 corporate people who took the train to the city (New York) and had to go to Wall Street or Madison Avenue every day. ” Why would I ever want to do that” my brother would say. “They are all stuffed shirts, drunks and phony”
They also lived all around us. I got to meet and these folks every day. We did projects for them and their companies. Then again, I had no idea what a 9:00 to 5:00 job was , because we worked all of the time. We didn’t buy new cars every year, didn’t need a Cadillac and didn’t have the biggest house on the hill. Actually, we had new company cars which were Fords of Chevys. Nobody ever wore suits unless there were business appointments. And we certainly weren’t stuck in a box office. We had something akin to a campus. It was a Big sprawling company head quarters with a swiming pool, weight room, tennis club etc. I grew up thinking these were normal working conditions.
I remind you this was the early 1960s. So how we lived and worked was outside the norm for the time. My mother and father created this vision of “freedom, creativity and honest hard work.”
When I was 16 I worked in NYC one summer (1962) as a messenger boy. The job took me to Madison Avenue, Wall Street, the garment district and uptown. It was definitely Don Drapers world and I wanted no part of it after that summer. I have hated offices ever since. They are more like prisons to me. Schools are that way too. Big institutionalized buildings which train rats.
I wanted to be a writer after college and started a successful Magazine on the East coast. When I saw the conflict between the advertising world and the artistic world, it became hard to reconcile. It still is. There is a conflict. One is about telling the truth on issues, the other is about selling, branding, PR and manipulation. It was in Don Drapers world and it is in the Boulder PR world.
What I LEARNED FROM MY FAMILY WAS NOT TO LIE TO MYSELF ABOUT IT. Interesting because we sell a lot of services and advertising to clients at C1N.TV. What I do in order to live with myself is always tell customers the truth, give the customer a fair price and always, always give them more than they paid for with out telling them. We do that to the max. I also won’t take customers who I don’t like ( which is rare) and we have another policy, all of our customers love us. So we as a company start out from a place of love and caring for each and every customer. It’s doing Gods will. We make business spiritual.
So Yeah, I am in the ad game alright and have been most of my life. I have sold radio, TV, print ads, created commercials, designed ads, designed Magazine covers, websites , written press releases, filmed commercials, Music videos…. and done product placement in TV….. I have done it all.
The human conflict suffered on Mad Men is one I resolved when I was 16 years old. Fortunately, today I live in a city where we all live similar life styles. But advertising and PR are a tricky business and I’d like to see more honesty by the new crop of marketing people we have here. Just know advertising is not Art.
From this ain’t Madison Ave
Jann Scott
Boulder Colorado
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Boulder Start-ups and alcoholism
02 months ago
I have worked in drugs and alcohol for many years. Hosting a nationwide radio show on addictions was my foray into broadcasting back in 1987 I know enough about the subject to be called an expert.
A friend of mine who I will call Tyler quit her job this afternoon at one of Boulders startups. ” I just got sick and tired of all of the drinking and drugging that goes on” she said. “Today was the straw that broke the camels back. Everybody started drinking well before 4:00 pm. There were whiskey bottles out on the desks which is a norm. As I walked down the stairs a guy was coming up with two cases of beer. ”
She couldn’t take it anymore. She walked into the CEO’s office and turned in a letter of resignation.” He was drinking too. ” I know drinking is a big part of the Boulder start up scene” she said. “The peer pressure to drink is tremendous. They are always celebrating something. And I realize they are all in their 20s and early 30s (Barb is 35) but that is not what I want to be doing with my life so I quit”
The Guy who drove drugged on narcotics and put 10 people in the hospital is another part of Boulders drugged out scene. I will reserve judgement on him until I know whether or not he had a seizure; Or was he abusing a perscription. Did he have a prescription? And was it one of those prescriptions from a pain clinic that any addict can get. ?? Did he screw up or was he a victim of an illness.?? Either way he sure caused a mess and should never be driving.
Boulder promotes heavy drinking. Last week you saw me go off here on the Mixology Fest promoted by Downtown Boulder and BMOCA. I see that event as a blatant violation of our supposed healthy life style here in Boulder.
Tomorrow is St Patrick Day and already the bars are beating the drums for another reason to over drink.
It’s not that I have anything against drinking. I don’t. I really don’t. For normal people it means fun and friendship. But here in Boulder we have always been on every “drinks too much ” list in the world. The consequences are dire. Alcoholism is a serious addiction and the recovery business in Boulder is booming. No one wants to admit when they get sick from alcoholism. It is a taboo topic of discussion.
But it is the quintessential elephant who sits in the middle of Pearl Street every night.
From the drunkest small city in America
Jann Scott
Boulder Colorado
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Best of Boulder is a big fat marketing ploy by media
02 months ago
BEST IN BOULDER
It started in the 80s when Westword came out with it’s Best of Denver. I actually won an award in 1988 and 1990 for a Talk radio category. But Westword Best of Denver is the original and still the best…… sort of. Then in the 90′s everybody started to copy Westword. The Daily Camera came out with Best of Boulder , then the Colorado Daily had a Best of Boulder. Boulder Weekly jumped in with a Best of Boulder. 5280 has a Best in Denver. The Daily Camera has the Gold Awards and Yellow Scene has Best of the West.
Holly shit!!!!
I have always done a TV show based on winners of The Best awards….no matter where you got em. I also like doing the Best and worst of. That’s fun.
But in any event, do any of these Awards really mean anything? Hell no. It is all meaningless. If you advertise……. you are going to get an award. period. Capitalism at it’s best.
Now Boulder Weekly is trying to claim Best of Boulder or is it Best in Boulder by trade marking it. As though they originated it. They didn’t. It is all one big circus. But here we go again. But it is boring. The Camera used to slap people around with some goofy awards. I got a few of those. I miss those days.
Jann Scott
from the Best of the Best in Gold award city in the USA. We are soo cool !! Yipee!
Boulder Colorado
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review: Yelp IPO hidden danger: Businesses hate Yelp won’t advertise
02 months ago
Let’s talk about Yelp. OMG Can you believe investors actually bought it. If you were one of the lucky few to get in at $15 and sold it on the first day, maybe, but I am not much for trading. As an investment Yelp has huge problems. It has been around since 2004, yet has never shown a profit. C1N.TV has been around since 2005 and we have shown a profit every year. Yelp has millions of followers and reviewers, yet much of what they say is libelous and that has caused them legal problems. Fight Back at Yelp is a site owned by a Texas businessman who owns a chain of restaurants. He sues the shit out of everybody on Yelp who libels him. I see that as a trend. Not good for Yelp.
Yelp also, attempts to blackmail restaurants by telling them they will clean up or move bad reviews if the restaurant advertises. I am surprised that some of their ad reps don’t get punched out. Yelp Denver is hated by local businesses. 24 to 34 year old like yelp,but they don’t count. The advertisers do. Don’t be confused. this ain’t Facebook. Facebook does not go out of their way to piss off advertisers. But Yelp has a bunch of alienated restaurants out there in the world. Businesses do not like to advertise with media who bash them. I am telling you. I know. I have been selling advertising to them for years. People buy us just to spite Yelp. And We are a 10 x better investment.
So I see Yelp as a loser. And anyone who thinks otherwise has never been on the street selling to retailers. Most business’s I talk to hate Yelp. They fucking hate yelp.
Jann Scott
from Boulder Colorado
