| MEDIA CAMPAIGN UPDATE | 1 comment |
 2003-03-31 11:59, by Julie Solheim-RoePlease note and pass along: This is information to update our post of last week. It contains new names and direct phone numbers of news directors as some of their superiors, the news presidents/chiefs listed earlier, have become harder to reach. It also corrects some numbers. See the earlier email for snail addresses and for background on TV news appalling and undemocratic journalism MEDIA CHALLENGE ! Three Week Action Plan : March 24, 2003 – April 11, 2003 One Call a Day to Democratize Media - an action from Peace Coalitions It is time to take on the television companies! PLEASE READ BELOW AND ACT AND ALSO EMAIL TO YOUR CONTACTS. Support for a war and for police state actions by tens of millions of Americans can be directly traced to the misinformation, lack of information and wildly unbalanced commentary they get from General Electric (NBC), News Corp. (Fox), Disney (ABC), AOL-Time Warner (CNN) and Viacom (CBS). PBS is little better. Fifty-eight percent of the public gets its information solely from these sources; 85% are influenced by them. No wonder we are at war. If democracy is to have any true meaning, it must be based on a well-informed public. These companies must be compelled to provide real journalism and commentary balance. Their roles as propaganda arms of the Administration must end. We a coalition of peace groups encourage you to join the focused mass phone-in to the TV News bosses. Every day for the next three weeks call the national news chiefs listed below (also separately call their national and local newsrooms). As war proceeds, ask for: Balanced coverage including images, interviews and reports of civilian casualties and other war impacts. Equal time for anti-war experts and worldwide leaders and coverage of the many events beyond the rallies, including military families and members who oppose the war. Prominent challenges to the Administration’s credibility. The broadcast media needs to hear that they have no credibility because they have not reported the false claims and lies already exposed by the print media. (Factual details below) For the next three weeks we urge you to call one Network each day on the following schedule (addresses are further below): Call the news chief and or the news director or, if you can't get through, call the switchboard and ask for the newsroom. Even better, call them both. Keep the calls pouring in to the newsrooms. Calls are greatly more effective than emails and moderately more effective than faxes. . Monday: ABC NEWS CHIEF David Westin. 212.456.6200. fax: 212.456.4292.. NEWS DRECTOR Mimi Gurbst. 212 456 4050 fax.212 456 2795 ABC SWITCHBOARD (ASK FOR NEWSROOM) 212.456-7777. NEWSROOM fax 212.456.2795 Tuesday: MSNBC AND NBC. MSNBC NEWS CHIEF Mark Effron. 201.583.510. fax: 201.583.5199 NBC NEWS CHIEF Neil Shapiro. 212.664.4773. fax: 212.664.2264[ Wednesday: CBS NEWS CHIEF Andrew Hayward. 212.975.7825. fax: 212.975.7429. Thursday: CNN NEWS CHIEF Walter Isaacson. 404.827.5111. fax: 404.827.4215. PBS FACTUAL PROGRAMMING CHIEF Sandy Heberer 703.739.5036. NEWS CHIEF SANDY SOWERS 703-998-2150 Friday: FOX NEWS CHIEF: John Moody. 212.301.8560. fax: 212.398.8726. Besides the daily calls, WHENEVER YOU SEE OR HEAR BIASED COVERAGE, CALL THE NEWS CHIEFS AND/OR NEWSROOMS AND INSIST ON RESPONSIBLE, IN-DEPTH JOURNALISM. There is plenty every day to call about. Calls are best because they must halt misinforming the public while they deal with you. If you cannot reach policy makers, then fax or e-mail. On April 12, 2003, Media Challenge! will issue an enhanced action plan to ensure that TV provides the coverage Americans deserve! MEDIA CHALLENGE! is co-sponsored by: Projects4Peace, ICUJP (Interfaith Communities United for Justice and Peace), Neighbors for Peace and Justice, Coalition for World Peace, Global Guardianship Initiative, Code Pink for Peace, Peace on the Beach, Peace Warriors, LA International A.N.S.W.E.R., Not in Our Name, Global Women’s Strike, Southern Cal. Americans for Democratic Action, Americans Against War With Iraq. NETWORK NEWS EXECUTIVES ADDRESSES ABC News President: David Westin 77 W. 6th Street New York, NY 10023 ---------------------------------------------- NBC News President: Neil Shapiro 30 Rockefeller Plaza New York, NY 10112 ---------------------------------------------------------- MSNBC V.P. Live News Programming: Mark Effron One MSNBC Plaza Secaucus, NJ 07094 ------------------------------------------- CBS News President: Andrew Hayward 524 W. 57th Street New York, NY 10019 --------------------------------------- CNN News President: Walter Isaacson 1 CNN Center Atlanta, GA 30303 _________________________ FOX News Channel Sr. V.P. News Editorial: John Moody 1211 Avenue of the Americas New York, NY 10036 _____________________________ PBS FACTUAL PROGRAMMING CHIEF Sandy Heberer 1320 Braddock Place Alexandria, VA 22314 ______________________________ |