Thursday, February 7, 2008
FIGHTING INFO WARS
John Mascaro on February 5, 2008 published a great posting in the Ron Paul War Room.
Because “content is king” in media and journalism, and because most local & regional newspapers and television media do not have the resources, these smaller outfits get much of their news content from larger news reporting pools - the three largest of which are The Associated Press (AP), United Press International (UPI), and Reuters.
The Associated Press’s trademark is “The Essential Global News Network” (emphasis mine). Global indeed. No sh&&t Sherlock.
If one is to “strike” at the root of the tree to complain about censorship of Ron Paul information, one needs to file specific documented complaints via emails, phone calls and /or hard copy with these larger fountains of information, in addition to your local and regional media. While the Editors are certainly the key contacts at these entities, I also recommend copying top executive management where possible.
Here is contact info for each including The Associated Press - probably the most systemic culprit of the Ron Paul censorship. This top-down appraoch to news content plays into the elitist management of “what is newsworthy” and is also why you see that censorship trickling down to your local media and then we get excuses from the local editors saying “it wasn’t our fault, we just ran with the [canned] AP or UPI wire story”.
The Associated Press
http://www.ap.org/pages/contact/contact.html
Headquarters
450 W. 33rd St.
New York, NY 10001
Main Number+1-212-621-1500
There is also a drop down menu for the local U S State bureaus at the AP website.
United Press International
http://about.upi.com/Support/index.php?ContentID=20051025151356-4710
Reuters
http://about.reuters.com/contacts/
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