My own small part...
Local media gets the job done. There's nothing quite like that trusted and friendly local anchorman/anchorwoman to lay down the local truth. DailyKos has been reporting on the embedded video that captured on film the presence of High Explosives that were reported missing by IAEE. The focus in the blogsphere seems to be on the SCLM. The CNN's and USA Today's get hammered with emails to follow the story. This election will come down to a small handful of counties in a smaller handful of states.
It seems to me that the real import here is to hit, and hit hard, the local media outlets; those less likely to be able to handle a radical influx of email and contact on one subject. Volume alone to places like the Columbus Dispatch, WBNS 10 TV (Columbus, OH), the Delaware Gazette (Delaware, OH) should at the least get noticed and tie up some media outlets. At best, this will raise coverage and awareness in local media markets of isues that are taking days to filter down. The problem is, the local media breaking news consumption process barely works for the amount of time it takes big news to hit. It is not a distillation where the news grows more potent but more like a coffee-drip; if you need it now, go soemwhere else. This allows local media to create a second-guess spin in local papers, editorial columns and television stations. The below email I have used to canvass the media in central ohio.
My new mantra is think globally, act locally (or in your nearest swing state).
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"Videotape made by a television crew with American troops when they opened bunkers at a sprawling Iraqi munitions complex south of Baghdad shows a huge supply of explosives still there nine days after the fall of Saddam Hussein, apparently including some sealed earlier by the International Atomic Energy Agency.
The tape, broadcast on Wednesday night by the ABC affiliate in Minneapolis, appeared to confirm a warning given earlier this month to the agency by Iraqi officials, who said that hundreds of tons of high-grade explosives, powerful enough to bring down buildings or detonate nuclear weapons, had vanished from the site after the invasion of Iraq." per the NYTIMES ONLINE
This story demands top billing. It can also be more fully researched at the following news sources.
http://www.kstp.com/article/stories/S3723.html?cat=1/
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/NotedNow/story?id=156246
http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/story?id=206847
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2004/10/28/174412/70
It seems to me that the real import here is to hit, and hit hard, the local media outlets; those less likely to be able to handle a radical influx of email and contact on one subject. Volume alone to places like the Columbus Dispatch, WBNS 10 TV (Columbus, OH), the Delaware Gazette (Delaware, OH) should at the least get noticed and tie up some media outlets. At best, this will raise coverage and awareness in local media markets of isues that are taking days to filter down. The problem is, the local media breaking news consumption process barely works for the amount of time it takes big news to hit. It is not a distillation where the news grows more potent but more like a coffee-drip; if you need it now, go soemwhere else. This allows local media to create a second-guess spin in local papers, editorial columns and television stations. The below email I have used to canvass the media in central ohio.
My new mantra is think globally, act locally (or in your nearest swing state).
-----------------------------------------------------
"Videotape made by a television crew with American troops when they opened bunkers at a sprawling Iraqi munitions complex south of Baghdad shows a huge supply of explosives still there nine days after the fall of Saddam Hussein, apparently including some sealed earlier by the International Atomic Energy Agency.
The tape, broadcast on Wednesday night by the ABC affiliate in Minneapolis, appeared to confirm a warning given earlier this month to the agency by Iraqi officials, who said that hundreds of tons of high-grade explosives, powerful enough to bring down buildings or detonate nuclear weapons, had vanished from the site after the invasion of Iraq." per the NYTIMES ONLINE
This story demands top billing. It can also be more fully researched at the following news sources.
http://www.kstp.com/article/stories/S3723.html?cat=1/
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/NotedNow/story?id=156246
http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/story?id=206847
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2004/10/28/174412/70
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