Contact Information, Etc. Re: Corn transcript

[Chuck0]

Doug Henwood wrote:
> Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
> 
>> 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?

I think that Yoshie is proposing an Office of Socialist Information 
Awareness. I hope that Liza gets a better offer.

BTW, I like Katha Pollit's editorial in the Nation that takes Hitchens to task.

Chuck0

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