Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Getting Quoted [was: Decent article about New View cohousing in Boston Globe]

[Jim Snyder-Grant (jimsg]

We have no media committee or media strategy (any more). This was the result
of a reporter coming to a couple of meals and talking to a bunch of us at
once. No 'message' was agreed on beforehand, so they just picked and chose
what was interesting to them. It came out pretty good, considering.

On 1/7/07, Sharon Villines <sharon [at] sharonvillines.com> wrote:
> On Jan 7, 2007, at 12:50 PM, Jim Snyder-Grant wrote:
>
> > -And they didn't describe our semi-complex right-of-first refusal
> > correctly,
> > but that didn't surprise me. They got it right enough.
>
> After working with a few journalists on articles I've discovered that
> it helps if you can give them in writing only a few, like 3-5 things
> you really care about being said, and said right.
>
> If you hand them the sheaf of papers you have on file, they will pick
> and choose stuff that they think looks interesting and then it will be
> edited from brochure or legal-document-speak to newspaper speak. Then
> it will be edited by someone you never even spoke to.
>
> Since the NY Times is written at 7th grade level, most of our local
> newspapers are probably  written at 4th grade level. Some legal
> documents come out at post-graduate level -- meaning indecipherable by
> most of us. By the time the indecipherable gets edited down by someone
> who has no idea what it was even intended to mean, it can be pretty
> scary.
>
> Some reporters will work by email and I like that a whole lot better.
>
> Sharon
> -----
> Sharon Villines, Washington DC
> Where all roads lead to Casablanca
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