I totally agree...put ourselves in the others shoes for a second....If you are unaware of how popular a candidate is and you are in charge of writing an article, doing a news piece, or extending an invitation to a candidate you dont know much about, and then all of a sudden you get hundreds of emails and phone calls from angry people spouting obscenities about how uninformed you are and what an idiot you are for not including RP in your daily life...You will automatically assume that this candidates supporters are all angry mob type of people....It would leave a bad taste in your mouth and you would at that point probably purposely leave that candidate out or worse slam them..
I think its terrible that people were calling Ed Failor in the middle of the night shouting obscenities on his answering machine for his whole family to hear...it shows a severe bad taste in representing RP supporters as a whole (I still think Failor is an ASS)
I think from what I heard people did a great job yesterday in Iowa representing how gracious and respectful RP supporters can be, I am really glad it didnt turn into a Howard Dean style protest....
People should be writing media groups and newspapers about Ron Paul but it should be kept very respectful and ASKING not demanding to hear more about our beloved Dr.
This is a very good example of what i'm talking about. Lets all pretend for a second that you are an independent voter who decides to start a blog and report all news about the 2008 election that you find interesting. You report the simple facts on both democrats and republicans and try to be as fair as possible. One day you do an article on Romney about his past flip flops and you think of it as just another political story and go off to bed. Now when you wake up in the morning you find 122 angry emails in your inbox saying that you must be a fanatical christian, catholic, muslim, jew, atheist etc thats scared of having a mormon president and your just afraid your children will see the light and convert.
As roxic27 mentioned your first impression would be that a large chunk or majority of Romney's supporters are nothing more than an angry mob but on top of that how seriously could you take any arguments that come after that as to why Romney should be president? Who in their right mind would sit through the other 121 emails which probably contain the same anger just to read insults about their work or the network they work for? What happens is that all of the emails are highlighted and then deleted and their day goes but not without the message.
Lets not forget about why we all love Ron Paul so much, he didn't just come out and begin to point fingers, he offered real solutions that were logical and based on simple facts. He never gets angry and never raises his voice but you can hear the passion and the fire in the message without any aggression and thats how we should all be trying to spread the word of Ron Paul. We will never get far if all we do is send angry emails and call people names or discredit the work they do.
I know its the trendy thing to bash the mainstream media for a lot of its problems or its lack of coverage on important issues due to things such as corporate interests or censorship and there is some truth to that. But never forget that all media outlets from blogs to network news shows all have 2 goals that go in this order:
1. Generate advertising revenue.
2. Inform.
The problem is that the media outlets simply assume there is no genuine interest in Ron Paul because as for right now his campaign fund is below 3 million. If they don't think there is any interest in having Ron Paul appear on their program than they won't do it because they think that doing so would actually cause a loss of advertising revenue. When you compare the amount of time Ron Paul has been given in the mainstream media compared to people like Brownback, Gilmore, Huckabee, Hunter, Tancredo, and Tommy Thompson have all been given you'll realize that they aren't trying to block Paul out they just go by who they assume will generate ad revenue.
This is why Paris Hilton continues to dominate the news even though its safe to say all of the producers, writers, camera men, makeup artists, sound guys, and anyone else who works behind the scenes could all care less about her but they are willing to pay out 1 million dollars because they believe she will generate much more money in ad revenue if they do mention her. If they thought Ron Paul would do the same they would offer him 1 million dollars too.
Ron Paul has been in all republican debates except for the last 1 which probably doesn't count much considering our turnout
but if the media or special interests groups were really scared of Ron Paul they could have removed him very easily with very little if any backfire. If they were scared they would never let him come on for 10 minutes of what they think is just filler content they would just give his picture to security and tell them to deny him entry. In the debates they could just say he wasn't able to clear security and had to return to his hotel.
The best way to get Ron Paul in the mainstream media is to keep the messages positive and to keep on donating what you can or getting others to donate what they can so that the media can see that support for Ron Paul is real and that by having him on for 30 minutes to explain his views in a detailed way will generate ad revenue for the company and its shareholders because there is genuine interest in his message.
By the way if you guys want to add some more weight to your message simply go the "contact us", "about us", or "investor relations" pages of the website with the article and find out who the parent company of the newspaper/tv show is and just mention that you are a share holder even if you aren't and then explain your message about Ron Paul. Believe me, it DOES carry some weight. Yea its sad and goes against the integrity of journalism but most journalists learned that they would be selling their souls for ad revenue in the first day of journalism class.
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