Valstarr Thanks for your thoughts and dedication. Please email me privately re your thoughts and background. Modius von Mergentheim Kingdom Hospitaler (still for the next couple of weeks) (Erik Langhans) Dir. of Marketing KHOU-TV/CBS Houston Texas >>> John Yates 06/25/98 07:38am >>> A Good Thursday Morning to Ansteorrans of the List! I read a post regarding, in part, how often to write news articles from a Hospitaller, and part of a reply referencing, in part, to a section of the Florilegium soncerning PR ideas and 'handling' the media. In the city of McAlester, Oklahoma, there are only 4 radio stations and one daily newspaper, with no local television station. Our group has a beneficial thing in having members working at three of the radio stations and the newspaper. Working in both print and broadcast news, I thought I would point out that each of the three major 'media' mediums (TV, radio, and newspaper) would have different lead times, manner of operation, possibilities for public service announcements in advance, feature stories, etc. Much would depend on where a group is, what type of media outlets (both in the city where a branch is located, but often those smaller papers on the fringe of the Dallas market, for example,) are located. What type of event/demo the group is holding, whether it is open to the public, etc., would also impact how to present it to get the most media coverage. I would be happy to converse by private e-mail in more detail on media. One point though; no publicity can be better than negative publicity! It helps to have friendly, or at least non-antagonistic, media. Valstarr John Yates ============================================================================ Go to http://lists.ansteorra.org/lists.html to perform mailing list tasks. ============================================================================ Go to http://lists.ansteorra.org/lists.html to perform mailing list tasks.