help create a list of current and potential supporters in the media

[garybeck]

please use this thread to create a comprehensive list of people in the media who currently support our cause or you think would potentially do so if given the proper evidence. We can use the list as a task force; if many of us send them the same thing at once, it is much more effective than just one or two people. I'll start.

CURRENT SUPPORTERS
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Mike Malloy
Rhandi Rhodes
Thom Hartman
Ernest Partridge (Crisis Papers)
Jim Lampley
ROBERT C. KOEHLER
Jim Hightower
Will Pitt
Brad Friedman
Bob Fitrakis
Harvey Wasserman
Steve Rosenfeld
Larisa Alexandrovna
Other Air Americans?


POTENTIAL SUPPORTERS
====================

Al Franken
Michael Moore
Kieth Olbermann
Ed Shultz
Ray Taliafaro
Jerry Springer
Other Air Americans?
Bill Maher

[Hello_Kitty]

1. Potential: Oprah (seriously)

Can you imagine if she got on board with this?

[Pepper32]

2. Potential: BET

nt

[Pepper32]

3. Another potential: Tavis Smiley

Also, what about Anderson Cooper?

[garybeck]

4. Anderson Cooper?

isn't he just one of "them?" Since I pretty much stopped watching the MSM after election day, I can't say. Does he express disdain for Bush and the administration? has he shown in the past he's willing to report what really is going on, unlike anyone else in the MSM? Enlighten me.

[Pepper32]

5. I didn't "nominate" him, just inquiring

I was just referencing his coverage of Katrina, I felt he did a better job than most. Now if we are judging based solely on the past then I say he shouldn't be added to the list. Enlightened now?

edited: typo

[garybeck]

6. aren't there some folks at KPFA that like us?

anyone have names and contact info?

[emlev]

15. Larry Bensky has done the most

His show (which streams at kpfa.org) is Sunday Salon and has its own website, sundaysalon.com, email [e-mail]

I can get his ear if you need me to.

[garybeck]

7. Potential: IMUS in the morning

From what I hear he's getting pretty fed up with the adminstration. I think any person in the media who has expressed dislike for the administration is a potential ally.

[GuvWurld]

8. W. Leon Smith @ Lone Star Iconoclast

This paper in Crawford, TX did not endorse * last year.

They gave lots of coverage to Camp Casey.

And they have brought exposure to the Voter Confidence Resolution. See this piece that came out this week:

http://198.65.14.85/News/2005/37-38/37news02.htm

[garybeck]

9. a couple more from Air America, listeners please verify

I think I've heard Jeneanne Garafalo express doubt in the election results on more than one occassion. That would put her in the "supporter" category. Any regular listeners agree?

Laura Flanders has been outspoken on this issue, right?

Mark Riley - supporter, right?

AAR listeners, please verify, correct me, and add others if you can.

[AtLiberty]

10. Here are a few more...

David Margolick, Vanity Fair

Not afraid to investigate ;)



Also Lewis Lapham, Harper's

Mark Crispin Miller

Laura Flanders

[AtLiberty]

11. Also David Letterman cracks stolen election jokes frequently...

;)

[AtLiberty]

12. Also Stephanie Miller

She's already onboard...

[freedomfries]

13. thanks for forward thinking garybeck

do you have time to add contact links?

[garybeck]

14. I could use some help on it

I was going to do it myself of ask for volunteers. I want to make this into a spreadsheet, with contact information. Then I have a plan for using it.

any volunteers? we need mailing addresses and email. phone/fax would be good but not essential.

[emlev]

16. Pokey Anderson at KPFT, Amy Goodman + Juan Gonzalez

at Democracy Now.

www.kpft.org
www.democracynow.org

[emlev]

17. Greg Palast, Arianna Huffington

[garybeck]

18. Howard Stern - potential