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Dear Greg and Other List-Family Members... Hey ya all! Lissen up here, 'cause Jim Finn's segment on "60 Minutes" this coming Sunday, June 21st, will present a perfect opportunity for EVERYONE in ANY country - to write to the TV stations AND U.S. newspapers with comments about PD and Udall Bill funding. I This is like a door opening with a beckoning hand waving to us with an INVITATION to respond publicly! Don't live in the States? Don't get "60 Minutes" where you live? Well, dammit, just LIE and say you saw it!!!!! Do you think that anyone's going to call "60 Minutes" to SEE if it plays in Perth, or London, or elsewhere in the world? IF a non-US citizen claims to have seen the segment of "60 Minutes" featuring Jim's experience, AND introduces comments about the Udall Bill, I seriously doubt their claim would be discounted. HECK... taking it a step further, the non-U.S. citizens could claim to have been visiting in the USA and just happened to watch "60 Minutes" the night Jim's segment was on. Is anyone in the media going to dispute that? NO WAY! Just remember, we MAY be down, but we're NOT out yet! Let's take advantage of this opportunity... Barb Mallut [log in to unmask] ---------- From: Parkinson's Information Exchange on behalf of Gregory E. Leeman Sent: Thursday, June 18, 1998 2:41 AM To: Multiple recipients of list PARKINSN Subject: Re: Newspapers/who replied Dear Dennis and Camilla, I'm afraid that is one big excuse we can all use if we let them get away with it. The same tired excuse I received when I asked the local Portland television news programs if they were going to play the Muhammad Ali PSA. "We only do local PSA's." I would bet a bag of donuts, and that's a decent description of some of these blockheads, that if we pick out a couple of these stations and bombard them with phonecalls it would generate some news. I'm sick and tired of being told we are not newsworthy. Let them spend 5 minutes inside this slow walking, non-smiling (outwardly anyways), rigid (as they are about non-locals)body, non-sleeping, moody(and today they don't want to mess with this), and ready to do battle with the Dayton Daily News! I'm going to say it one more time with feeling, "I'm Mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore. Now, everyone in unison towards the Dayton Daily News." It is our choice. Either we complain amongst ourselves, or we get off our duffs like Dennis and make some noise. Only this time collectively! POed in Portland, Greg Leeman 37/and 7years too long! > -----Original Message----- > From: Parkinson's Information Exchange > [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Dennis Greene > Sent: Thursday, June 18, 1998 3:11 AM > To: Multiple recipients of list PARKINSN > Subject: Re: Newspapers/who replied > > > Camilla, > > My thanks for your encouragement. > > >-- I've been watching the Dayton Daily News, and hoping they > >would come through for us--no luck. I'm curious whether they were one you > >heard from? > > No they weren't. FYI and that of any others who may be interested I have > reproduced the 3 replies below. > > Dennis. > > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > > Dear Mr. Greene: > Thank you for sending a letter to the editor of The Tallahassee > Democrat. I want to tell you that it is unlikely that we will print your > letter since we have a surplus of letters from our own local readers. > Our duty is to print their views first. Should we ever have a deficit of > local letters, then I might be able to consider printing out-of-town ones. > Thank you for your understanding. > Sincerely, > Heather Mendelson, Letters Editor > The Tallahassee Democrat > > +++++++++++++++++++++++++ > > Thanks for your submission. However, we cover only local news or comment. > Please remove us from your mailing lists. > --Jack Sanders, executive editor, Hersam Acorn Newspapers, Ridgefield, > Conn. > > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > > (The following was a very long letter and I have only reprduced > it in part - > nowhere in the reply does it mention the name of the publication but I'll > leave in what clues there are.) > > We received the following submission, but will be unable to publish it. We > require that letters to the editor be written exclusively for us. We do > not, as a rule, publish copies of letters to others. > > Our letters and op-ed essay guidelines: > > * In general, we publish only letters and essays written by Rochester-area > residents or those with strong local ties. > * News story ideas should be submitted to the local news desk at > [log in to unmask] The editor for local news is Bob Finnerty, > 258-2214. >