>> From: Alex Small <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Subject: [EM] Approval Voting Op-Ed material
>> As per Anthony's advice, I expanded the pro-AV essay to >> 800 words, more appropriate for an op-ed. I tried to trim >> it to serve as a letter, but I couldn't decide what to >> trim. I flesh out a few points, and also critique IRV. >> If anybody comes up with the contact info of newspapers in >> areas with IRV ballot initiatives (e.g. Alaska) send me >> the contact info and I'll submit it. For that matter, >> send it to the whole list, since I'm sure plenty of people >> here have some good material on their hard drives. Well done. I like the new critique of IRV; it kind of wanted to be there. Media contacts are easy now, thanks to the Internet. Once you get started, lists lead to more lists. And of course, every municipal library has a pointer to similar resources. Some starting leads: (some could have gone south since the last time I looked; that's the nature of links) www.ipl.org The lobby of the Internet Public Library, which has links to just about every general newspaper on the Internet (and not many newspapers aren't on the Internet these days). Follow the link and look up the contact on the web site. Also has a magazine section and online texts, too. Fantastic place. http://ajr.newslink.org/ AJR NewsLink -- huge lists of newspapers, magazines and other stuff http://www.krl.org/reference/newspapers.html Newspapers Online -- lists, plus links to other lists. http://www.NewspaperLinks.com/content.asp Newspaper Association of America -- Newspaper Links -- huge list of US papers, by state http://www.library.vanderbilt.edu/law/acqs/journals.html AcqWeb's Directory of Journals, Newsletters and Listserv Archives -- short list of lists http://pppp.net/links/news/ The Ultimate Collection of News Links http://www.thepaperboy.com/ The Paperboy http://www.atlantic.net/~bdarl/news.html List of newspapers on the net Oh, by the way, the apostrophe is coming across as weird characters here. Just in case, you might want to use low ascii characters instead, for submission to an editor. >> Here it is: >> REAL VOTING REFORM >> By Alex Small >> Every election cycle many Americans lament the lack of a >> strong third party. Some say that the two parties are >> corrupt. Others don^Òt fit in with either party, perhaps >> being conservative on economic issues and liberal on >> social issues. Whatever their reasons, many Americans >> want more options. [...]