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Monday, September 05, 2005

Seattle Times, others reprint open letter from Times-Picayune!

Cross-posted to Daily Kos.

Yesterday, Armando reprinted the New Orleans Times-Picayne's open letter to Bush on the Daily Kos front page.

I was shocked, and delighted, to open up my hometown paper's editorial page this morning and discover the Seattle Times had reprinted the Times-Picayune's open letter. On its own editorial page!

It's also on their website; follow this link to get there.

This is OUTSTANDING. This letter deserves to be reprinted as widely as possible. Kudos to the Seattle Times for taking the bold step of reprinting it.

Kossack LawSkoolPunk wrote yesterday:
The editors of the Times-Picayune should write this to other major newspapers across the country as a letter to the editor. It should be read over the evening news. Everyone everywhere deserves to understand the form of government we have elected.
That's happening! I'm unsure if the Times Picayune asked other outlets across the country to reprint this. Whether they did or not, it's being reprinted. The Seattle Times isn't alone.

Other outlets that have reprinted the letter:
I didn't see any others that have actually reprinted the letter thus far.

UPDATE: Other outlets that have also reprinted the letter:
Several of you have commented to report you asked your local media outlet(s) to run with or reprint the open letter. Thanks for doing that!

If there's an outlet I missed, add a comment to the comment thread so I can add that outlet to the list. Please provide a link if one exists.

The remarkable story of the Times Picayune is told in today's New York Times. They lived through Katrina, plain and simple. And they continue to operate despite the immense devastation that has wrecked New Orleans.

Only a few media outlets have reprinted the open letter from the Times-Picayune so far. Has your hometown paper's editorial page done so? Has your local TV or radio station discussed the letter? If not, why not ask them?

The Newspaper Association of America has a directory where you can look up papers in your area if you don't already know which ones to write to or call.

You can:

(a) call your local newspaper, TV station, and or radio station and ask them to reprint the Times-Picayune's open letter,

(b) write a letter (mail, fax, or email) to your newspaper editor asking them to reprint the Times-Picayune's open letter,

(c) do both.

You can ask them to reprint the letter because it's critical that their readers, viewers, or listeners see it. You can mention that other media outlets have already done so; and ask why haven't they?

Today, I plan to contact the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, as well as several TV and radio stations here in Seattle, to ask them to reprint the Times-Picayune's letter and or give it airtime. I'm also going to send the Seattle Times a letter to the editor thanking them (opinion AT
seattletimes DOT com, (206) 382-6760 fax)

Please join me! Add your ideas, comments, suggestions, etc. in the thread!

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