VNR Vietnam Review: The Auburn Muckleshoot Casino 02/29/2012

Thứ Bảy, 23 tháng 6, 2012

The Auburn Muckleshoot Casino 02/29/2012

Saigon Television News and Media Network (SaigonFilms.com)
PO Box 391063
Mountain View, CA 94039
(408)966-0777
viettrade_net@yahoo.com

February 29, 2012

The Auburn Muckleshoot Casino

Mr. General Manager
2402 Auburn Way South
Auburn, WA 98002

Dear Mr. Blackburn:

On behalf of the Saigon Television News and Media Network (Saigonfilms.com, SGF) we would like to appreciate your time sending us your letter dated February 23, 2012 that confirms the policy the Auburn Muckleshoot Casino (AMC) concerning the incident happened to Mr. Le, our video reporter, at the Galaxy Stage on February 12, 2012.

Our editors come to a conclusion that defines our mission as a media network, communicating with other communities around the world on many television channels and Web Sites, we believe that we did not contact the AMC before we sent our reporter to the Galaxy Stage (GS), but relying on the info on poster by a group of Vietnamese entertainers that host the performance on the GS that night; as well as the AMC’s policy on its official Web Site about any other Asian Nights are free admission, and we observed that never is there any permission required for video tapes at those Asian Nights shows. Before sending our video reporter we did search and collect information related to the activities of the AMC, and we found out many video clips taken on the GS posted on YouTube™ by AMC’s fans. Please view the below reference.

We know that your patrons’ privacy is important, and we confirmed ourselves before our video reporter left California for Auburn that the video was strictly for the show on the stage only, never was it for any other places like games, drawing machines, or else inside AMC that night. Consequently, we came to the GS around 6pm to examine beforehand inside the GS, there were not any security guards at the time, and the entrance was publicly open to all American guests. We examined the GS carefully, but we could not see any signs prohibiting and/or warning the videographer to get permission; therefore, we believe that we do not have any reasons to report our videos to anybody. At 8pm when we came back there were two security guards with lines being set up and our video reporter obeyed the order to place the camcorder on the table for a security guard to check, and the latter let him enter the GS. Obviously, the AMC’s policy is not unique. It is unreasonable when you took whichever policy from anywhere to explain the unhappy incident when our video reporter was forced to leave the GS with threats to have the camcorder confiscated, but right from the beginning, the AMC cannot have enough logic to claim you are completely right and play fair in the case.

So, we lost the video intended for the communities around the world. The video report was ruined. Of course, the AMC lost one successful opportunity to contact our Vietnamese communities as well. We also lost one chance to reach farther to the North West community of the USA. But we lost more, time and expenses for our trip, our honor when your security guard yelled loudly at our video reporter in the Vietnamese crowd.

Dear Mr. Blackburn,

We hope we will come back to AMC shortly. The precious time is not gone yet since our honor was left behind at the GS, the honor of ours you owe. We believe you know that. Our editors hope that you will have ways to resolve the issue so that we still have chance to come back to AMC to work on the project we planned ahead for the good communication amongst our Vietnamese communities around the world, and that is the way you compensate us the honor we lost, the minimum of the losses we suffered for the failed trip.

We are looking forward to hearing from you very soon. Thank you.

Sincerely,

Hoang Hoa (Signed signature)
Editor in chief of SGF

Reference

Several AMC’s fans’ videos at Galaxy Stage:

Tuan Hung in Seattle at the Muckleshoot Casino July 3, 2011 (1)