How to get better news coverage of protests

Posted by Mitchell - February 27, 2003 (entry 7)

From Danny Schecter's mediachannel.org weblog:

Ian Brand writes about one way to encourage better news coverage of protests. "During the last protest on Feb 15, I brought the same sign I brought to DC in October. It says the following in large bold letters:

"ATTENTION CELL PHONE USERS!!

"PLEASE CALL THE NEW YORK TIMES!! (Times phone #)

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