Very important Action Alert!!!

[Quixote1818]

I just came off this thread and felt like something further needed to be said about this and Action needed to be taken immediately:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=3204516&mesg_id=3204516&page=

Everyone needs to do something about this! This is NO time to just blow something off. In my opinion our Democracy is on the brink of disaster because once we loose the integrity of our news organizations the checks and balances of our society are lost and our society is then basically doomed.

I sent that letter (Exit Memo) out to over a dozen news organizations. Folks, it's letter to the editor writing time and it's time to send that "Exit Memo" out to as many reporters as possible with a few choice words from you attached. Someone needs to remind reporters why they chose to become reporters, I hope they did it to make a positive difference in the world and once that is compromised then they are nothing but pawns and our democracy then begins to crumble. It's already starting to crumble but it's not to late however we cant sit around on things like this. It's time for all reporters to start writing exit memos like that. We need to ask them to do the same or at least write a story about this. I just think all reporters need to read that memo to jolt some sense of duty and honor back into them. (When I say reporters that means top to bottom not just the little guy who is told what to do) Remind them how important their job is and how they just cant sit around any longer and let big corporations turn them into stepford reporters with no soul or purpose.

Please post your letters to the editor or any letters here to keep this kicked.

[EFerrari]

1. Question: are reporters the right target for this message?

I would think managing editors, Ed page editors and readers reps might be a little closer to the power centers. Most reporters get assigned, don't they?

[Quixote1818]

2. The target should be anyone affiliated with news I think

It's obviously more the fault of those on top but I do think more reporters need to speak up like she did. That gets people thinking and scares the big shots when they fear being exposed for what they really are by their own staff. I say write to anyone who has anything to do with the news.

[EFerrari]

3. Good point.

I started with E&P: [email protected]

[EFerrari]

4. Hey, I got a response from E&P

Sent this note & someone named GMitchell says s/he will use some of these comments in their next column.

Nothing like instant gratification. lol

And, there it is already! http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/search/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000825312



To the Editor,

As someone who has gone from being in a two-paper family to a no-paper, all internet news family, I want to thank Laurie Garrett. I don't know if she is right about greed and profit, but she is right about American journalism.

It's unclear how the decision to stop taking a paper (or, to stop watching televised "news")becomes a self-evident solution. Maybe it's the cumulative experience of watching story after story being neglected or outright misrepresented. Maybe it's the mass circulation of political talking points. Maybe it was that one happening that never made it to page A17, day after day after day. It's a terrible and sad decision, for sure, a kind of suffocation to feel your press has all the vigor of state sponsored propaganda.

For my family, the tipping point was a week or so after the last federal election. While the mainstream media were discounting tinfoil internet bloggers over the issue of election fraud, the president of the AP was in Hollywood telling journalism students their challenge would be to keep up with the internet. We thought, he probably knows what he's talking about.

Please make us wrong.

Elizabeth Ferrari
contact info
San Francisco CA
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[Quixote1818]

5. Nice job! n/t

[Quixote1818]

6. Kick

:kick:

[SpaceBuddy008]

7. MemOmentum! E-mail List =Management -Pastable stream!

Carpe-diem

was inspired by LG's letter
holding and helping press be accountable and uphold their duty is vital at this time

wanted to help here is resource for those of you with full-time internet access

management editors, top brass orientated list

Most of these are the addresses of top management of major newspapers across the country (in a few cases we couldn't find the email of top management and the address is one we could find). Ask the editor or manager to cover the story of Big/Media Disinfo in depth NOW, while something can still be done about it .

PLEASE TAKE ACTION NOW. We suggest you start every day with sending one article to these people (this takes less than 5 minutes), so that their email boxes will be full with citizens' demands that they cover these issues. Please forward this email to everyone you know and to all of your lists.

If we let dishonest people get away with Big/Media Disinfo, things will only get worse next time.

[email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], jo'[email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]




Send a multiple efax now!
copy and paste a block of fax-email addresses into the ’To’ field of a blank email

[email protected],
[email protected],
[email protected],
[email protected],
[email protected]

[email protected],
[email protected],
[email protected],
[email protected],
[email protected]

[email protected],
[email protected],
[email protected],
[email protected],
[email protected]

[email protected],
[email protected],
[email protected],
[email protected],
[email protected]

ps- you are only allowed 6 faxes per day or 20/wk- so this is set up for 5/day, four days in a row. Also, you have to send the next email a full 24 hours after the previous email- ie if you send one to the first 5 Senators today at 1pm, wait until 1:05 tomorrow to send the next email or it will get bounced.


getting media on the people's side is our only hope almost
I really believe they want to prevent the spreading of more irrationality and fallacious tom-foolery