Grassroots Newspaper Ad Effort to Be Reported in Major News Outlets

[xita]

At least it will be if we start contacting members of the main stream press. Spoon feed the story to them. Give them an objective look at what was accomplished.

Talk about meetup groups. Talk about the Ron Paul Revolution. Talk about how quickly is was accomplished. Talk about how much it would normally cost for a national campaign to pull something like this off.

Then email or call every local and national news agency you can think of. Give them the links to the original thread, give them the link to http://ronpaulmosaic.com/

Write the story for them: either as a supporter or as a reporter.

There are thousands of news outlets across the US. If we contact all of them, at lest a percentage of them will run with this story: because it is an interesting human interest story. Write a completely objective story that could be picked up by the AP or Reuters.

Remember, local stations and news papers always want stories. Do their jobs for them and get the word out!

Who will you contact today?

[spacebetween]

Do we want to be attracting media attention the forums? That sounds like it could backfire, but I don't know.

[Spirit of '76]

In the meantime, Digg this to help publicize it:
http://digg.com/2008_us_elections/From_Grassroots_Great_Things_Grow

[retrorepublican]

i really like the idea... i don't think we need to give them the forum link though

[nayjevin]

absurdly huge list of media contacts:

http://ronpaulforum.com/showthread.php?t=44

[angelatc]

The Campiagn has specifically requested that all press releases come from the campaign.

[billm317]

I think giving forum URLs is a bad idea.

[Lord Xar]

I agree, lets not 'get too crazy' about all this... why? well, they might start coming down hard on us... regarding regulations and all of that... lets let this wave grow organically.

Not only that, I put out 4 -1/2 ads in the last week in Ames Iowa... had over 40 rotations of a radio ad on WHO and WOW (today wow fm 98.3 is running the last blast 6x times today -- listen in Des Moines)... so the current ad is FANTASTIC, but its not 'new' in that we at the grassroots level have been doing this for weeks now... same as when meetups march down the street!!! To me, that is MUCH MORE involved.. hahhaha... I am a very shy person... so, lets keep this all in perspective...

Stay tuned.. in the next 1.5 weeks.. I will be making some big announcements for promotion, and we will ALL BE INVOLVED......

lets not draw too much attention to ourselves right now... the powers that be will no doubt get a directive to stomp it... so, to me.. lets be hush.

[LibertyEagle]

At least it will be if we start contacting members of the main stream press. Spoon feed the story to them. Give them an objective look at what was accomplished.

Talk about meetup groups. Talk about the Ron Paul Revolution. Talk about how quickly is was accomplished. Talk about how much it would normally cost for a national campaign to pull something like this off.

Then email or call every local and national news agency you can think of. Give them the links to the original thread, give them the link to http://ronpaulmosaic.com/

Write the story for them: either as a supporter or as a reporter.

There are thousands of news outlets across the US. If we contact all of them, at lest a percentage of them will run with this story: because it is an interesting human interest story. Write a completely objective story that could be picked up by the AP or Reuters.

Remember, local stations and news papers always want stories. Do their jobs for them and get the word out!

Who will you contact today?


NO. PLEASE DO NOT ADVERTISE RON PAUL FORUMS. And for God's sake, don't send them a thread to this forum!!!! Use your heads, people! Do you want this forum to be crawling with reporters, more than is already the case? Do you think that is smart?

Xita, please tell us you are not doing this. If you have started, PLEASE STOP!

[yoshimaroka]

Lord Xar is wise, let us heed to his words. :) :D

This thing is growing at a nice pace.

Let's not attract media attention to the forums? Like spacebetween said, it can backfire.

Our grassroots campaign is growing and it will be impossible to ignore, just give it a little time.

[Lord Xar]

At least it will be if we start contacting members of the main stream press. Spoon feed the story to them. Give them an objective look at what was accomplished.

Talk about meetup groups. Talk about the Ron Paul Revolution. Talk about how quickly is was accomplished. Talk about how much it would normally cost for a national campaign to pull something like this off.

Then email or call every local and national news agency you can think of. Give them the links to the original thread, give them the link to http://ronpaulmosaic.com/

Write the story for them: either as a supporter or as a reporter.

There are thousands of news outlets across the US. If we contact all of them, at lest a percentage of them will run with this story: because it is an interesting human interest story. Write a completely objective story that could be picked up by the AP or Reuters.

Remember, local stations and news papers always want stories. Do their jobs for them and get the word out!

Who will you contact today?


Xita.. yeah, hold up. The Media has already shown their distaste for ron paul. There are plenty of stories about him, why do you think they need a story about grassroots? This will just draw undo attention to us and perhaps hurt things.. not only that... they ALWAYS spin ron paul, so can you imagine what they will do to us at the grassroots level...

lets not "promote" this... its better if this thing grows organically... do not bring attention to what we do becasue it will be countered and manipulated.. seriously. I know your heart is in the right place..

[Razmear]

Agree on not pointing them to the forums, we dont want a bunch of fredheads and rudy supporters in here mucking things up.
I think linking to 76's write up would be good enough for any web promo.

eb

[nayjevin]

lets let this wave grow organically

indeed. thanks, xar, excellent point!

[xita]

I haven't sent the link - but why on earth would you not want to send people to the forums? We don't have that many nutjobs here.

Would you prefer it stay small? Help me out here.

As to press releases coming from HQ . . . Why would that be a benefit in this case? This is from the grass roots. If 100 people contact 1000 local media outlets and get 50 mentions - is that not a good thing?

Again help me out with the reasoning here.

[LibertyEagle]

1. We don't want to attract more reporters to this site.

2. We don't want to attract more trolls.

3. There are frequently things discussed here, that probably should not be and we certainly do not want to draw media attention here.

4. This is not a good place for new people to Ron Paul to come to get information about the doctor. Only die-hard RP supporters and even then, some will be scared off. ;) It seems to be a better idea to send such people to other sites. For example:
http://www.ronpaul2008.com/
http://www.ronpaullibrary.org/index.php
http://www.ronpaulaudio.com/
http://www.ronpaulnation.com/tv.html
http://gunowners.org/pres08/paul.htm

Are those enough reasons?

[angelatc]

We're not the official voice of the campaign. We don't need to steer them here.

If we build it, they will come!

[Spirit of '76]

I don't think advertising this forum in newspapers and such is necessary, but...

I have been asked to remove the link to this forum from my blog post on the subject. At this point, I have no plans to do so. Despite its warts, this forum is one of the best organizing tools we have. The advertisement itself is a product of the brilliant people on this forum.

Concerns about the Hot Topic trolls are a bit overblown, methinks. That stuff is tucked away where it belongs and isn't visible to non-members. Once people register, they'll quickly pick up on the fact that that stuff is a marginal point of view here.

[constituent]

i thought we went over all of this here (http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?t=11353&highlight=rp+press+release) just the other day.

and i know the hot topics, reporters issue has come up in numerous threads...

[njandrewg]

just say..."a group of supporters on the internet, organized and completed this project in 1 day"

[LibertyEagle]

You are forgetting about the recent remarks from this forum that were picked up by I believe it was an Iowa blogger on the campaigns. There was a thread about it yesterday.

Do you want to attract more reporters here?
Do you think this is the best place for mainstream America to come in their search to find out more about RON PAUL?
Do you want to increase the troll traffic?

[LibertyEagle]

just say..."a group of supporters on the internet, organized and completed this project in 1 day"

Good idea.

[Spirit of '76]

Look, your concerns are duly noted, as I told you in response to your PM.

You have my answer. I do not intend to remove the link to this forum from my blog post. That you're angry about that, quite frankly, is not my problem.

I have already said that I don't see a need to put out a press release about the ad or to advertise this forum in mainstream media sources, but I don't agree with the fearmongering about the negligible effect that linking to this forum from my little blog is going to have.

[LibertyEagle]

Look, your concerns are duly noted, as I told you in response to your PM.

You have my answer. I do not intend to remove the link to this forum from my blog post. That you're angry about that, quite frankly, is not my problem.

I have already said that I don't see a need to put out a press release about the ad or to advertise this forum in mainstream media sources, but I don't agree with the fearmongering about the negligible effect that linking to this forum from my little blog is going to have.

Duly noted.

[stevedasbach]

Let reporters "discover" all the spontaneous activity. It's not just the newspaper ads. We're already starting to see mentions of this in articles. It's likely to be a major component of the Ron Paul storyline, once we enter the MSM's "top tier".