Journalists (particularly the Tabloids) usually only publish what they are
told to publish,
Getting a journalist to support you is usually only possible if you support
'the establishment' and attack anti-establishment issues or have something
really controversial to report involving human emotional issues.
Writing your own press releases produces a far more accurate results.
I talk from personal experience here both in the UK and Australia having
dealt with a lot of newspapers and journalists.
(nothing to do with the gold economy - totally separate issue)
Kind regards,
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----- Original Message -----
From: "James M. Ray" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "e-gold Discussion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, February 25, 2001 12:35 AM
Subject: [e-gold-list] Covering e-gold correctly
> At 7:33 AM -0500 2/24/01, George Matyjewicz wrote:
> ...
> >Graham and others who may contact Thiel. In addition to sending
> >that to Thiel, include Salon. While the First Amendment in the
> >US protects them and allows them to print controversial material,
> >as a responsible journal, they should have verified that
> >statement. Hence, they could also be liable for slander. I
> >sent the author and editor a note suggesting they do a followup
> >with e-Gild and some MMs.
> >
> ....
>
> I've found, through long experience, that journalists rarely-if-ever
> "get" e-gold, no matter how long they study the website and how
> much they talk/email to people, unless they perform the following
> three steps (which take about 5 minutes, but nobody seems to
> have time for them).
>
>
> 1. Create an account. You can't cover what you don't know, it's
> painless and free, they won't sell/trade/give-away your info, so
> just do it.
>
> 2. See an e-gold spend. (Don't worry about doing that on your
> own, they can contact me with any halfway-plausible claim that
> they're a journalist and I'm going to spend to the account.) It's
> especially fun to do this while on the telephone checking the
> balance, to show how fast it can be, but e-mail also works fine.
>
> 3. DO an e-gold spend! Find a good cause to click it to (the EFF
> comes to mind...) to preserve your journalistic integrity from the
> rapacious Jim Ray, or get some Capulin Coffee -- if their website
> ever comes back up (You can still email Daniel at
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, but what a pain!) or just waste it all at
> the Gold Casino, but DO ONE SPEND at least. Try to play with
> the account a bit (I get the feeling that most folks don't have
> any idea how cool "History" can be, for example).
>
> THEN, once you've done those things, write. If you're REALLY
> smart, submit a draft of what you plan to publish to Jim Ray. It's
> not like I can change anything bad if I wanted to, anyway, but
> if accuracy is important* you just MIGHT want my eyes on your
> piece before everyone else's.
>
> Generally, the journalism mistakes I've seen in the past have
> not so much been possible libel, but rather the profound lack of
> a clue (to put the problem a bit bluntly). I'm here to help...I'm
> actually a journalist myself, and I find it hard to imagine me
> covering something that I haven't even tried. As Jimmy Buffett
> once said/sang, "Don't try to describe a Kiss concert if you've
> never seen it." Amen, brother.
> JMR
>
> * Only _ONE_ writer was *ever* brave enough to do it (and --
> what a shock -- that writer needed almost zero help from me,
> anyway). A gram to the first person to post her name without
> copying this entire message (let's spare those on the digest,
> for once). Another gram to the person who finds a similar-but-
> more-sarcastic message on the free-market.net board and
> posts the URL, again without copying this entire message to
> the list. Please post an account number, too. Thanks.
>
> "e-gold is to 'money' what email is to letters." -- JP May
> --
> Regards, James M. Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP = 0xAE141134
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