by Utopian Reformist 3 Replies latest jw friends
I am excited about Bill's Press Release. Does anyone know if the WTBS will do anything with it?
Has it been released to american media? Will we see it in magazines, local and national news, radio and tv? I hope this is really it this time!
I am dying to see the whole organization taken apart, piece by piece, by government, by media, by whistle blowers and of course, by attrition most of all!
They will say nothing unless forced by someone in the media. The release itself just calls attention to the problem and the steely determination to see it resolved. It is the work that has been done and will yet be done that is powerful.
: I am dying to see the whole organization taken apart, piece by piece, by government, by media, by whistle blowers and of course, by attrition most of all!
You've seen Dateline develop, now a series of potentially devastating court cases. Stay tuned for the rest, all of the above.
Right now, it is the announcement of litigation. When Watchtower denies/denies/denies, the media will really want to develop the story.
Max
Respectfully, it is very simple for YOU, as a member of YOUR community, to email this PRESS RELEASE and/or TAKE THE PRINTED OUT COPY to your local community media; all fronts.
Someone has also supplied a URL that has most every avenue of media you can think of. Many email addresses to get this RELEASE submitted into. If we all at least just get it out in our own community, it will spread and people will start discussing what they are reading and will comment. Our local news site has a forum, so once the RELEASE is seen here, I expect to see the Opinions page "light up".
I'm sure others have already got this out to "elite" media. I did e this to FOXNEWS. If it has not been forwarded to other such news sites, let me know and I will take care off it. (CNN...BBC...CNBC...PBS even....)
sKally, moving the bottle of Spumonti to the top shelf of fridge klass
Um, there may be a misconception about press releases -- anyone can issue one, and it can be about anything, and most of them are little more than ads for a company that get totally ignored except by thier business partners. Just try the Press Cliping feature on Yahoo, and see how news organizations get thousands of press releases every day, most of them unbelievably boring and non-newsworthy.
Nobody in the news business thinks twice about a press release -- unless the press release itself is newsworthy. Now, Bill's press release is certainly that, but until it is independently confirmed to check it's veracity, I would be surprised if it gets published by any national news organization. Remember how JWs think the whole world hates them, but in fact the whole world hardly even knows they exist? It's the same with the WTS. By itself, they just aren't newsworthy, no matter how fascinating the subject is to us.
Once Dateline airs, and the word begins to spread, then you may see more interest in these things. But it has to be newsworthy, verifiably newsworthy first.
