Contact Information, Etc. Re: Corn transcript

Yoshie Furuhashi furuhashi.1 at osu.edu
Thu Nov 21 23:30:19 PST 2002



>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?
>
>Doug

You and Liza _already_ have a giant credibility problem as far as the mainstream corporate media are concerned -- you'll never get to write for the New York Times and the like. What is there to lose?

_The Nation_ already does advocacy journalism (not always the right kind, as its editors seem wedded to "Progressive Democrats") -- you two can make a better use of it on behalf of the anti-war movement (or anything else you care to promote), if you put your minds to it.

Besides, you two, of course, have _Left Business Observer_ at your disposal, in print and on the Net. You can plug upcoming events on the Net at least (as LBO in print comes out rather infrequently, to the chagrin of its devoted readers). I don't know about Liza, but you are subbed to a large number of listservs, too. You've been doing a great job of shameless self promotion on many of the lists to which you post; why not promote anti-war events as well? Oh, the best of all, you got a radio show -- you can always invite speakers for and organizers of upcoming anti-war events in NYC as your guests. In Columbus, OH, whenever we hold anti-war actions, anti-war forums, etc., we try to get the organizers and speakers on the radio -- we got one radio show host who actually is an anti-war activist, and three who are friendly to activists and sometimes invite us and our speakers to talk about upcoming events. Every little bit helps. -- Yoshie

* Calendar of Events in Columbus: <http://www.osu.edu/students/sif/calendar.html> * Anti-War Activist Resources: <http://www.osu.edu/students/sif/activist.html> * Student International Forum: <http://www.osu.edu/students/sif/> * Committee for Justice in Palestine: <http://www.osu.edu/students/CJP/>



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