[GPSCC-chat] [GPCA-MediaComm] Mercury News

[civillib at comcast.net]

Not unexpected. I was a weekend editor at the Bee and we had NO 
staff (one police reporter and a couple of other people sitting 
around). And that was when times were good.

Frankly, I care more about TV coverage (which reaches more 
people) and we have had luck there in the past. We'll try again.

Wes, thanks for doing this. Did Morgan Hill say they'd send a 
reporter or just use the press release?

Cres

Wes Rolley wrote:
> I was told that the Mercury News will probably NOT cover the plenary.  
> They only have 2 or 3 reporters working on the weekend and weekend 
> events by minor parties will probably not be covered.   (Any local Oscar 
> party will surely deserve a photo shoot, however).
> 
> Maybe we need to have an avatar write it for them.
> 
> It all goes to make the point that we will need letters to the editor in 
> every paper on the county to get any notice at all.
> 
> However... the editor of the Morgan Hill Times will give us ~500 words.
> 
> Almost every community in the County has a local, mostly weekly, paper.  
> Some are dailies.  If we want any presence, we have to write it 
> ourselves, preferable with a local slant, and get at least a letter to 
> the editor in the paper... expressing how impressed you were with the 
> event and the party.
>