Please read this, and if you are so inclined, pass it around to as many people as possible. Time is important.
. http://xjwnews.com/article.php?sid=25&mode=thread&order=0
Thanks,
Mike Pence
XJW User Submitted News & Views at http://xjwnews.com
A Call to Action
by mikepence 5 Replies latest jw friends
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mikepence
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blondie
If people here don't contribute enough to Simon so he doesn't need ads, why would they contribute that kind of money for a press release? Of course, Simon may have enough money and the ads are for another purpose.
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Celtic
Perfectly willing to lend you a hand in every way that I can.
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Bodhisattva
Okay, so $675.00 including $100 for membership and $575 for a press release on PR Newswire. I can personally recall seeing stuff from PR Newswire a lot, but I have a few frank questions:
- Do we really want the organization making the release to be called "xjwnews.com"? Something less immediately objectionable to Witness readers and less indicative to non-witnesses of our, um, predisposition. "Freeminds" always struck me as now immediately sounding anti-witness.
- Every time I have been on PR Newswire is because 1) a news source linked to it and 2) I was looking at the news source because of my interest, e.g. Yahoo! news for my specific industry. Is this just a craqp shoot hoping that this will more likely be picked up than what some here send to their local papers? If so, it might be fun to roll the dice.
I don't oppose this idea, may contribute, but think we must figure out how to be most effective.
Bodhisattva
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mikepence
Right, the wording of the press release, who it is attributed to, etc. can be worked out. I am more interested in putting this in front of as many media sources as possible than catering to the whims of JW's, who are likely to reject it out of hand.
What I am saying, is let's do this thing. If a bunch of us just chip in 10 or 20 bucks, what do we have to lose? I don't know about you, but I would be willing to make that investment on the chance that the US media will pick up on this, even if only in a couple of major cities.
LET'S STOP JUST BITCHING AND DO SOMETHING. Let's see if the ex-JW community is prepared to put lunch money where their mouth is.
Peace,
MikeXJW User Submitted News & Views at http://xjwnews.com