And public whip ignored.
Monbiot has form here. He wrote an article in 2005 about farm
subsidies, citing his Guardian colleague Felicity Lawrence as having
used FOI law to find out who gets what, when in fact it was
farmsubsidy.org (in this case, me).
http://www.monbiot.com/archives/2005/12/13/the-corporate-begging-bowl/
I've become well used to not getting credited/referenced for the work
I do but have ended up being pretty sanguine about it. After all, it's
the outcome that matters, not who gets the credit. Even so, it's good
to keep journalists honest whenever possible and yes, I absolutely
agree that the old media are scared of what's going on out there on
t'internet and some are actively resistant to linking to external
websites, or publishing URLs. I remember going on Channel 4 News once
and they asked me what was my organisational affiliation. When I said
'farmsubsidy.org' they said they couldn't put that on the screen as it
was "advertising". I said that they would have no interview if they
didn't and since it was 20 minutes to going on air, and Jon Snow was
ready to roll... they gave in. Last November the BBC 10 O'Clock news
flashed up on the screen 'farmsubsidies.org' and in one of the big
daily newspapers we've been 'farmsubsidy.com' I think the explanation
is honest mistakes but all speaks to what has already been said on
this thread about the benefits for strong branding.
On Francis's suggestion of getting volunteers to collect votes into
'issue clusters' I think this is something that campaigning NGOs would
jump at if they were given the opportunity and it didn't have to be to
technically complex. We have a plan for the new version of
farmsubsidy.org (currently under construction) to have a 'shopping
cart' or 'list' function that allows users to compile, save and
publish their own custom lists of subsidy recipients, e.g. members of
the royal family, elected public officials, whatever...
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