2009/11/30 Charles Matthews <charles.r.matth...@ntlworld.com>: > Thomas Dalton wrote:
>> I understood what you were suggesting, I'm just wondering why you >> think that is better. You sounded like you were quoting some standard >> rule about press releases and I know very little on the subject. > I've done press releases before, and got some coverage. I don't know of > a rulebook: I picked up a few things from someone who had done them > himself. I don't regard them as hard to do, if you do have a "story". > There's a kind of template, and if you can fit your message into it, > that's the easy part. Then you have to know where to send them (how is > easier, now fax machines have gone out). Yeah. Remember that anything you say will be grossly distorted and written to fit into a preconceived story which may have no relation whatsoever to reality, and if anything that's actually accurate makes it into the article then it's a bloody miracle. And all this happens with the best of intentions and no malice whatsoever. - d. _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
