Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 16:12:36 -0700 From: rsrchsoc@IONET.NET (John Wilde) Subject: Re: [lpaz-discuss] Initiatives Ready; Need help on press release To: AZRKBA@asu.edu
That is why when I sent out the draft of the press release and asked for assistance in editing them and three talking points to be made to the media when asked questions. When you are approached you say make the three talking points and walk. Memorize them, burn them into your skull, have dreams or nightmares, but make the talking points your only statements to the media when you know it is going to be edited. It pisses the hell out of them when you do that.
After that the only way you'll talk to them any further is when the interview is going out live and will not be edited by delayed broadcast. What that means is, the print media will never get more than the three statements. Radio and T.V. will only get more, if it goes on a live broadcast. Since the media is loathe to let us do that, all they get is the tree talking points. As I said, that pisses them off.
The talking points are hardboiled no-compromise statements. They cannot be altered to "fit" any agenda that the media might have. There are other talking points, but the three were decided upon are addressed to the areas where we will face the greatest resistance. In other words, I am telling the anti's and compromisers, here we come and there ain't a damn thing you can do to stop. Either join us or get out of the way.
I fully intend to do the press release next Monday or Tuesday, I will do a presentation at the Maricopa County Libertarian Party meeting at the Phoenix Library Tuesday evening and I have already asked Richard for some time at the next TUG on the 18th to discuss the initiatives. Then I will file the intitiatives on the 19th (A day we all know is extremely historical, but not in the way the media will think and I am ready for them on that). The signature gathering will then start in earnest on the day of the Gun Safety Forum on the 21st.
If you haven't seen the final draft of the press release and the talking points then send me a post privately off of the group and I will gladly forward them to you in a single file. It will come in Word Perfect or RTF. Let me know which format and I will send it.
g'day John Wilde
Dave Kopp wrote:
> Hey Rick,
>
> > The media always has that drumbeat. They tried to beat up Kleck, Lott, and
> La
> > Pierre. We stand and fight. We don't let them dictate to us how we do it.
> In
> > battle, a quick decision is better than no decision at all. I will not sit
> > stil while the media elite rain down crap on us.
>
> I agree. However, my basic point is that we should not be handing them crap
> to rain down on us. It's much akin to divvying up our ammo with the other
> side before the battle commences. Doesn't make any sense to me. We've got
> enough battles to fight already without creating new ones.
>
> There are better ways to generate PR. For example, Mother's Arms and SAS/AIM
> are currently taking the debate about "the safety of our children" right to
> the media. They have positioned themselves so that in order to cover their
> story at all, the media is forced to cover both sides of it. The message is
> simple, children are safer when they are properly educated about firearms.
> And even then, we've all seen how some of them manage to slant the coverage
> in order to paint them all as paranoid nut cases (that British rag's article
> springs immediately to mind).
>
> Using the occasional real life example of assistance rendered to the police
> (or even a neighbor) on the spur of the moment by an armed citizen is hard
> to fight. It shows that armed citizens are ready, willing and able to help
> their fellow man *when needed*. It makes us look good. Pledging that we will
> all be standing around waiting for such to happen so that we can break out
> the sidearm and start blazing away does not make us look good. It makes us
> look like we are just dying to shoot someone. This is not a good thing.
>
> If we can figure out a way to present such to the talking monkeys (thanks
> Phil!) so that we don't come out looking like trigger happy lunatics, I'd be
> all for it. But I can't think of a way to present it as such right now, and
> I've got way too many other things to do this month to spend much time on
> it. Maybe next month ...
>
> --
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>
> Dave
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