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Advice from a journalist friend

Polgara, 02 Jan 2006 22:54:19

Graham Marsden, 02 Jan 2006 23:26:37

Polgara wrote:

> I was talking to a friend of mine who works for Reuters over dinner on
> Thursday evening. He suggested that The Economist (and possibly The
> Telegraph and The Guardian) would be the best newspapers to use to try
> to put our arguments forward.

Apropos of this, I've heard from someone else that allegedly the Home
Office decides policy based on the number of column inches a particular
story (or story area) gets in a selection of newspapers!

Cheers,
Graham.

zak, 03 Jan 2006 10:57:53

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Polgara polgara@lobstermail.co.uk, 03 Jan 2006 10:57:53

I was talking to a friend of mine who works for Reuters over dinner on
Thursday evening. He suggested that The Economist (and possibly The
Telegraph and The Guardian) would be the best newspapers to use to try
to put our arguments forward.

Take it or leave it - I thought this was worth passing on.

I don't recommend the Guardian - far too long a tradition of
unquestioningly putting
forward the anti-porn line.

However, the Independent might be worth pursuing. They published a letter
of mine about
the sex industry without chopping it about too much.

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Hessie, 03 Jan 2006 20:13:24

The Observer might be worth a go - see this article from Sunday opposing
the Home Office's latest idea to clamp down on prostitution:
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,6903,1676273,00.html

Hessie

zak@missdemeanour.idps.co.uk wrote:
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: Polgara polgara@lobstermail.co.uk, 03 Jan 2006 20:13:24

> Subject: [backlash] Advice from a journalist friend
>
>
> I was talking to a friend of mine who works for Reuters over dinner on
> Thursday evening. He suggested that The Economist (and possibly The
> Telegraph and The Guardian) would be the best newspapers to use to try
> to put our arguments forward.
>
> Take it or leave it - I thought this was worth passing on.
>
>
>
> I don't recommend the Guardian - far too long a tradition of
> unquestioningly putting
> forward the anti-porn line.
>
> However, the Independent might be worth pursuing. They published a letter
> of mine about
> the sex industry without chopping it about too much.
>
>
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Teddy, 04 Jan 2006 00:23:48

Yes. The Indie's coverage of the whole "violent porn" saga has been notably restrained. Gormless' grand announcement regarding the consultation document was relegated to a short note on the inner pages. There was an editorial piece the following day which, in brief paraphrase, seemed to say "we don't approve of the material in question, but the government attempts to sensor it by legislation won't work".

Teddy

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: Polgara polgara@lobstermail.co.uk, 04 Jan 2006 00:23:48

> Subject: [backlash] Advice from a journalist friend
> I was talking to a friend of mine who works for Reuters over dinner on
> Thursday evening. He suggested that The Economist (and possibly The
> Telegraph and The Guardian) would be the best newspapers to use to try
> to put our arguments forward.
> Take it or leave it - I thought this was worth passing on.
> I don't recommend the Guardian - far too long a tradition of
> unquestioningly putting
> forward the anti-porn line.
> However, the Independent might be worth pursuing. They published a letter
> of mine about
> the sex industry without chopping it about too much.
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demolitionred, 04 Jan 2006 07:40:19

Broadhsheets have been contacted.

The Telegraph, the Times and the FT wrote articles on the day the consulatation was published.

Journalists for the Indie and the Guardian have appraoched their editors but have been told there is no interest at the moment -- maybe on the day the responses are published.

With this in mind, we will continue to contact joyrnalists and let them kow we are here if they ave any questions, will send out press packs ahead of likely publication and prepare a pres release for the day it is released.

Thunder, 04 Jan 2006 16:57:19

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<7985419.1136360246672.JavaMail.root@thallium.smartgroups.com>,
demolitionred@yahoo.com writes
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>With this in mind, we will continue to contact joyrnalists and let them
^^^^^^^^^^^
>kow we are here if they ave any questions, will send out press packs
^^^^ ^^^^
>ahead of likely publication and prepare a pres release for the day it
^^^^^
>is released.

With no typos I trust ;)
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>
>

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Paul C. Dickie, 05 Jan 2006 04:37:29

In message , ^Thunder^
wrote:
>In message
><7985419.1136360246672.JavaMail.root@thallium.smartgroups.com>,
>demolitionred@yahoo.com writes
>>
>>With this in mind, we will continue to contact joyrnalists and let them
> ^^^^^^^^^^^
>>kow we are here if they ave any questions, will send out press packs
> ^^^^ ^^^^
>>ahead of likely publication and prepare a pres release for the day it
> ^^^^^
>>is released.
>
>With no typos I trust ;)

Perhaps her profo reeder used to wrok for the Grauniad?

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