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To: Joan Snyder - Keep up the good work! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joan E Snyder" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2002 5:41 AM Subject: Raylilyn's idea > what a perfect analogy to Chaucer! i too, agree that ours is a story to > be told and heard by people all over the nation...but how to attract > that kind of attention goes beyond all of my best efforts. here in my > little town of chillicothe, illinois and also in our big neighbor > peoria, i have an incredible relationship with the media. in our one > chillicothe newspaper, the mayor and i seem to be in a race to see who > gets more coverage. our local NBC affiliate anchor woman is my master > of ceremonies at all my events and i am a frequent guest on all 3 > stations. and at the peoria newspaper, they have had to tell journalists > to write about other people besides me. honestly, i do not do this for > my own gratificaition...i hate to see myself on tv-i'm so fat because > of the drugs, my voice is just another reminder of what i have lost, my > self-confidence is in the toilet and my face is a zombie-like mask. but > i will and have done whatever it takes to get the story out. having pd > has emboldened me in ways that i would have never thought possible. i > have gone into the world headquarters of Caterpiller, Inc. and asked > them for money and gotten it. i have gone into the ceo's office at a > major medical affiliate and asked for $10,000 and gotten it. when dennis > greene and i had our book published by margaret tuchman and the folks at > the alliance, i signed autographs, sent it to all the people whom i > thought might have some clout-but no one answered. i even tried to use my > Sidney Dorros award as leverage into some of the great halls of > information and power. i have written to all of the daytime talk shows > scores of times, begging for them to give us a chance. i have tried all > the network newsmagazines-no go (except once i got an email back from a > senior editor on NBC nightly news who gave me the name of someone on the > Today show but they had already changed jobs). yes, i agree that someone > needs to tell our story, someone who can do it with dignity and > compassion and just the right sprinkle of irony and justifiable anger. i > would try to be that person if i could only figure out a way to get in > the door. thanks-just blowing off some of my frustrations. i guess it's > who you know; not what you know! > > -- > Joan E. Blessington Snyder 50/11 > http://www.pwnkle.com/jes/jes_web/index.htm > <[log in to unmask]> > "Hang tough...........no way through it but to do it." > Chris-in-the-Morning (Northern Exposure) > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] > In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn