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[FreakinDJ]

Email this Press Release to ALL media outlets

Judge Orders Wis. Capitol Opened

This just in from Eddie Vale, AFL-CIO political communications director, on the ground in Madison, Wis.:

Chalk up another win for working families in Wisconsin as a judge just issued a temporary restraining order opening the Capitol building back up and ruling against Gov. Scott Walker and the Senate Republicans for illegally keeping it closed.

http://blog.aflcio.org/2011/03/01/judge-orders-wisc-capitol-opened/

If anyone has an Email list of the major media outlets please post it

[FreakinDJ]

1. CNN - done

[MineralMan]

2. Based on a Google News search, it appears that they

already have that story. You're a little late on this one. Check the news. Reuters is carrying it, too, so all the major media now has the story. I think they're way ahead of you, you know.

[FreakinDJ]

4. Since when did they start televising Google Results

lets try and get this on the main stream news

[MineralMan]

5. Every main stream news outlet subscribes to Reuters.

Reuters is distributing the story. They know about it already.

Will they cover it? Who knows. I imagine it'll be on the evening news all across the country, though. Once a wire service like Reuters broadcasts the story, the main stream news has the story. That's how it works.

[FreakinDJ]

6. A little public promotion helps to have the story aired on the news

which is why I am asking folks to send them an email

[MineralMan]

7. Do you really think so? I don't.

Emails from individuals, pointing to something on a website don't influence news organizations at all. Reuters does. AP does. Emails with links to stuff don't influence them at all. Such emails are simply deleted.

The main stream news gets its stories from wire services, it's own reporters, affiliates, and other sources. They don't get it from links in emails.

There's no harm in sending them emails, but don't expect your email to influence what will be covered, especially if the link is to some blog somewhere. They're not interested in that.

[EFerrari]

14. Pressure from the net can influence the course of a story and directly.

My response to O'Loofa got him to call his stupid Al Qaida should bomb San Francisco material "satire" and he referred to me & my piece directly when he was stuttering his asinine justifications.

FDL, Greenwald and others, including others here at DU, shredded the trial balloon stories in the AP, WaHo and LA Times about Bruce Ivins and got most of them corrected, amended or eaten outright.

Greenwald almost single handedly forced the media to cover the pre-trial detention conditions of Brad Manning. The officer in charge was ultimately fired.

The net influences the media a great deal. Yes, they are interested in that.

/typing

[MineralMan]

15. That's true. However, people emailing a link to an AFC-CIO blog

won't influence them to run the story. They have the story from the wire services. They'll run it if they want to. Of course the web can influence the media, but emailing a blog link to news outlets is not going to work. The examples you gave were responses to stories already run. I've done that, too, by correcting incorrect stories with well-documented emails. That's a very different thing.

[EFerrari]

16. No, the O'Loofa instance was a link I sent to his show's producers

and they got on it right away because it scared their cowardly @sses.

Similarly, the work Glenn did forced the mediawhores to do something with respect to coverage, not the other way around.

[MineralMan]

18. OK.

[EFerrari]

20. There's a sort of interesting way for you to observe this on your own

should you want to and that's using twitter on breaking and ongoing situations like the one in Egypt.

I was watching the #Jan25 feed for a few days and decided it was too cumbersome to do that and watch my own. So, I took about 10 of the most interesting contibutors and started following those individuals.

Of those ten, six of them wound up on Al Jazeera and DemocracyNow and a little later, on CNN, BBC and in the AP at least twice.

Of course, a revolution isn't an everyday story but it was interesting to see the interaction/inter-depedence of the net and the media play out so clearly even in that accelerated situation.

[MineralMan]

22. Well, I wish I had the time to do that. Right now, I have a lot of

work to get done. I'm taking a break today, after finishing one project yesterday. Tomorrow, I have to bury my head in another one. That's a good thing, but it does keep me from more interesting activities.

[EFerrari]

23. Well, good for you, MineralMan. It's good to hear someone is getting a check. n/t

[MineralMan]

25. Actually, it's good news in general, I think.

What I do is write the content for complete small business websites, working with a web designer. What has happened over the past six months is that more businesses are contacting us. Why that's good news in general is that it means they're investing in their businesses again, which wasn't happening so much until recently.

Since we get to know these businesses in the process of doing the job, I'm pleased to discover that their business is increasing and that most have hired new employees. That's partly because our websites are helping bring in new business, but it's also because things are slowly moving in that direction, at least in this area and with the types of businesses that hire us for their websites.

I hope that trend continues. It'll mean good news for lots more people than just myself. It's still a little slow, and there are periods where I don't have enough work, but it's looking better as we approach spring. My fingers are crossed.

[Hannah Bell]

8. you imagine.

[MineralMan]

10. I do. I'll be watching. What do you think will happen?

What I don't expect is for the media to break into programming to breathlessly announce this court decision. They'll report it briefly as part of their news coverage. Then, it'll be in tomorrow's major newspapers, as a brief mention in some other story about what's going on in Wisconsin. They'll also cover lots of other stories, regional, national, and international. They'll cover Charlie Sheen, too. Some people are apparently interested in that, although I have no idea why. It's what the major news media does.

If you're interested in a particular story, just keep googling in on Google News. You'll see where it appears and where it doesn't. Notice the number of stories when you see the aggregate link on Google News. It keeps growing.

What do you imagine?

[Skip_In_Boulder]

3. Ed Schults is reporting that Scottie & Co

is trying to fight this in court, capitol still not open, with the goal to be keeping it closed until after his budget speech today @ 4:00 (CST)

[Hannah Bell]

9. kr. the more people who get the news, the less the "news" can ignore it.

[MineralMan]

11. The AP is carrying the story, too, so even smaller media outlets that

don't subscribe to Reuters now have it as well. Even Fox Business has reported the story, base on the Reuters feed. The word is out. It'll be on the evening news tonight.

[Hannah Bell]

12. why are you wasting your time with this?

[MineralMan]

13. I 'm not wasting my time.

I'm posting information in the thread. That's not a problem, is it?

Edit: I changed this post because the person I'm replying to changed her post. It wouldn't make sense the way I wrote it before.

[FreakinDJ]

19. If the events in the Mid-East has taught us any thing - it has taught us

The Revolution will not be Televised - it will be on Twitter / FB

and as proof - how many times have we seen National News Media referring to Tweets for Breaking Stories. I got this off my FB account and didn't see it in the news (at the time)so I posted the need for folks to let them know

and YES it is very effective - the left has been doing this to oppose us for years ...

[MineralMan]

21. I think you may have meant the "right" instead of the "left"

in your post. You might want to change that to avoid confusion...

What you posted was posted her earlier today. You can find it on FB or DU or wherever. It's important news. You'll also see it on tonight's TV news and in any major newspaper tomorrow. It's a story that will get covered, because it's important.

[FreakinDJ]

26. Yes I did transpose the words

and thanks for NOT lambasting me over it

But with in 30 minutes of posting for some email help, CNN ran it on their banner. Did the emails force this ? Can't answer that question but yes it is part of the discussion

And YES Walker is getting TRASHED in the news cycle today

[Major Hogwash]

24. Never criticize a man for doing what he thinks is right.

Or a man without a watch.

[EFerrari]

17. Absolutely. K&R