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media | training | 6 must do items | message model | Press | How | Flip it | index

Spinning for our rights

– Proactive -- speaking up!

Consider the role of members in your community

Engage the community

Educate its members on what must be done

Involving the community in your educational effort:

Adopt a manatee (1980s)

Habitat for Humanity (1980s)

How do you personalize your issue for motivated people?

Media plans

Have a message that is clear and easy to hear.

Stay on message, focus, bring it back to your issue.

Keep it simple.

media | training | 6 must do items | message model | Press | How | Flip it | index

Training spokes people

  • speak clearly and enunciate.
  • make eye contact.
  • put people at ease.
  • ask them if they understand what you have said.
  • "Does that answer your question," is a phrase that can buy you time.
  • Think through your answers.
  • Oral presentations, tips for

media events

media briefings

have talking points or briefing points

brief people about the facts and the issues

focus on two or three points and hook the audience

 

Foreign Press

Media

Government

 

media | training | 6 must do items | message model | Press | How | Flip it | index

Six (revised) effective steps to media coverage and delivering your message:

  1. What is your message (2 sentences) and from that state your intent & outcomes.
  2. Identify newsworthy data: what's significant about it?
  3. Target your audiences: the words they use and the frame they can recognize.
  4. Frame for maximum media coverage
  5. Discipline the message: stay on point.
  6. Create a media plan: sell your ideas.

Model for messages:

  • The solution, What needs to be addressed?
  • A call to action, motivating the grass roots to
  • eradicate the problem, why it needs action.

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Press is the investigative conscience of the community

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community response

Chualar Ca.

    • posters on the wall
    • Photographs
    • T-shirts "Clean Water Now!"
    • catchy sound bites
    • Humor
    • a central media contact for referrals.

pp. 102-103

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Ellen Degeneres

4-30-1997

lessons on turning a story around.

freedom versus family values

"not appropriate for families."

versus

Networks have "taken away the remote control."

106-107

flip it

Are lesbians not a family member too?

Dick and Lynn Cheney's daughter

Sexual expression is not the issue unless you let it become the issue.

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Advocacy and the media as a community conscience

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