>Not yet good enough. If you want to help out NION and United for
>Peace (or any other organization for any other purpose), you want to
>move from simple reporting to "advocacy journalism." Stay in close
>contact with their national organizers, get to learn about their
>upcoming actions way ahead of time, do write-ups about each upcoming
>action at least twice (first at least a couple of months ahead of
>time, second a reminder shortly before the action), and do at least
>one follow-up report after each action. For instance, yesterday was
>NION's National Day of Student Action. You could have helped them
>by writing up about the action ahead of time, in such a way as to
>make your article serve as advertisement for the action as well.
So journalists are supposed to do agit-prop, not report and analyze independently? You don't think this would create a little credibility problem?
Doug