Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2000
Subject: # 180 Urge Media To Expand Coverage Of Shadow Convention
Urge Media To Expand Coverage Of Shadow Convention
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DrugSense FOCUS Alert #180 August 9, 2000
The Shadow Convention held alongside the Republican National
Convention in Philadelphia last week addressed issues, like drug
policy reform, that are generally ignored among the major parties.
While participants could see the value of the event, those of us who
weren’t there didn’t have many chances to see what was happening at
all. Broadcast media coverage of the Shadow Convention was quite limited.
The public at large will have another opportunity to hear what’s being
said about the drug war as the Shadow Convention reconvenes in Los
Angeles, along with the Democratic National Convention. Please write
to the media contacts below to urge them to spend more time covering
the Shadow Convention, and also to suggest the Shadow Convention’s
issues be raised by journalists during the other political convention
in LA.
WRITE A LETTER TODAY
It’s not what others do it’s what YOU do
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CONTACT INFO:
C-Span http://www.c-span.org/
Questions about Program Air Times and Video Tapes, as well as comments
about C-SPAN programming. (viewer@c-span.org)
Suggestions (events@c-span.org)
Pone Numbers
Front Desk (202) 737-3220
Viewer Services: (765) 464 3080 – 0
Washington Journal: FAX (202) 393-3346
Alternate Fax Numbers 202 737 6226 737 3323
ABC News mailform http://abcnews.go.com/onair/email.html Peter
Jennings is the Senior Editor for World News Tonight, the daily
program. Address things to him.
CBS News Mailform. http://cbsnews.cbs.com/feedback/frameset/0,1712,412,00.html
Dan Rather is the Senior Editor of the Evening and other news
programming, address things to him. Contact page for Rather.
http://cbsnews.cbs.com/now/story/0,1597,15218-412,00.shtml
NBC Nightly News With Tom Brokaw Nightly@nbc.com This page today has
some of their gop convention coverage. http://www.msnbc.com/news/NIGHTLYTB_Front.asp
“EXTRA CREDIT”
This is a National Issue. We need LOTS of media coverage.
Do a ZIP Code search for ZIP Codes in your area (or the Los Angeles Area
90012 thru 90089) Send a notice to ALL of your local newspapers, radio and
TV stations encouraging coverage on the LA Shadow Convention. This is an
easy fun and very productive way of increasing media exposure. See:
http://congress.nw.dc.us/wnd/
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Send your letter to any and all media contacts you have. See
http://www.mapinc.org/resource/email.htm to find Email contacts for
your local papers.
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SAMPLE LETTER
Dear C-Span,
I was disappointed the by the sparse coverage provided during the
Shadow Convention held simultaneously with the Republican National
Convention in Philadelphia. I watched some of the RNC on TV, but as
hundreds of reporters who were actually there noted, it was both
predictable and repetitive. Instead of rehashing that basic
observation again and again, couldn’t a few more of those reporters
and camera crews have been sent over to the Shadow Conventions, where
some controversial issues were actually being discussed?
I hope there will be more coverage from the Shadow Convention in Los
Angeles. It will make for a better informed public, but it will also
make for more interesting programming.
Please get the Shadow Conventions on the air. The American public
deserves the truth about the horrendous damage being caused to our
nation by the “war on drugs”
Stephen Young
IMPORTANT: Always include your address and telephone
number
Please note: If you choose to use this letter as a model please modify it
at least somewhat so that the paper does not receive numerous copies of the
same letter and so that the original author receives credit for his/her work.
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Prepared by Stephen Young – http://home.att.net/~theyoungfamily Focus
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