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Support Luke and Noah in the Media Week!
| DAY 1-9 CONTACTS NOW ONLINE- PLEASE SEND *SEPARATE* EMAILS TO EACH OF THESE MEDIA MEMBERS. PLEASE DO NOT SEND OUT YOUR MESSAGE AS A MASS EMAIL. FEEL FREE TO POST AND LET US KNOW YOU'VE SENT OUT YOUR VERY IMPORTANT MESSAGE EACH DAY OF NUKE MEDIA BLITZ WEEK!!! |
| Day 9 - LAST DAY! - Thursday - February 27th Media Contacts - (17 Total) OUT OUT-Letters@planetoutinc.com letters@out.com Advocate newsroom@advocate.com letters@advocate.com Advocate.com feedback@advocate.com TV Guide's Michael Logan <--Thanks Ron for the addy! Try not to bombard this email addy as it's probably not his. Let's say, if you send your emails before 12pm/noon eastern time, then send it to him. If you send out your emails after 12pm eastern, then skip him.  Julie.Farin@tvguide.com The Agenda with Joe Solmonese TheAgenda@hrc.org - http://www.theagendaonxm.org/ - The Human Rights Campaign hits the airwaves with “The Agenda with Joe Solmonese” every Monday night, live on XM Satellite Radio channel 120 from 6 - 8 p.m. Eastern time. Joe and co-host Mary Breslauer bring you the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender take on everything - politics, entertainment, sports, fashion, culture and technology. National Gay Newspaper Guild -- – All of the below contacts lie under the umbrella of the National Gay Newspaper Guild. Thanks to luv4all for supplying the link! Bay Area Reporter Cynthia Laird - News Editor - news@ebar.com Bay Windows Laura Kiritsy - Editor-in-Chief - lkiritsy@baywindows.com Between the Lines Susan Horowitz - editor@pridesource.com Dallas Voice Tammye Nash – Editor - nash@dallasvoice.com Gay & Lesbian Times Joey Pena - Editor - editor@uptownpub.com New York Blade Gary Lacinski- Associate Publisher - glacinski@hx.com Philadelphia Gay News Mark Segal – Publisher - mark@epgn.com Southern Voice Laura Douglas-Brown - Editor - LBrown@sovo.com Washington Blade Kevin Naff – Editor - KNaff@washblade.com Windy City Times Andrew Davis - Managing Editor - editor@windycitymediagroup.com Day 8 - Wednesday - February 27th Media Contacts - (17 Total) TODAY Is a VERY important day! We will be contacting TV shows in the hopes of getting them to cover this story. With that in mind, you *MIGHT* want to consider tweaking your message if you think you could make this topic more appealing to a TV show by changing the message a bit. If not, or if you're pressed for time, please don't worry about it and just send the same message you have been sending. Thanks so much!!! The View http://abc.go.com/daytime/theview/ask CNN & CNN Showbiz Tonight <---grr, as of now, both web-form do not seem to work! http://www.cnn.com/feedback/forms/form11b.html?2 <---CNN Story Idea form http://www.cnn.com/feedback/forms/form5.html?82 <---CNN Showbiz Tonight form Access Hollywood <---grr, as of now, web-form does not seem to work! http://www.accesshollywood.com/special/contact/ Ellen - (Sending in your general email is fine!) http://ellen.warnerbros.com/show/respond/?PlugID=10 Washington Post Paul Farhi - http://projects.washingtonpost.com/staff/email/paul+farhi/ Tom Shales - http://projects.washingtonpost.com/staff/email/tom+shales/ Lisa De Moraes - http://projects.washingtonpost.com/staff/e...lisa+de+moraes/ Star Telegram Robert Philpot - rphilpot@star-telegram.com Charlotte Observer MARK WASHBURN – TV Reporter - mwashburn@charlotteobserver.com Commercial Appeal Peggy Burch - Entertainment Editor - http://www.commercialappeal.com/staff/peggy-burch/contact/ Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Joanne Weintraub – TV Critic - jweintraub@journalsentinel.com Tim Cuprisin – TV Writer – tcuprisin@journalsentinel.com Garnett News Service Mike Hughes – Covers TV for Garnett News Service – mhughes@lsj.com Entertainment Weekly http://www.ew.com/ew/contact_us/0,,,00.html Abby West – Writes for EW.com new soap column - http://tvfan.ew.com/users/view_user_profile/332 - click “send FanMail” – must register to send email – if this is too much, please do NOT bother with it! Thanks! Zap2it <----thanks to luv4all for the contact info! John Crook - jrcrook@tribune.com Brill Bundy - bbundy@zap2it.com Day 7 - Tuesday - February 26th Media Contacts - (12 Total) (Thanks to JusticeGH & luv4all for helping find some contacts! Thanks also to winterguy125 & RogerD for helping update the sub-title of this thread!) Associated Press (AP) Dave Bauder - TV Writer - dbauder@ap.org Lynn Elber - TV Writer - lelber@ap.org USA TODAY Robert Bianco - rbianco@usatoday.com William Keck - wkeck@usatoday.com Hollywood Reporter Nellie Andreeva – TV Reporter – nandreeva@hollywoodreporter.com Paul J. Gough – TV Reporter – pgough@hollywoodreporter.com Kimberly Nordyke – TV Reporter – knordyke@hollywoodreporter.com Boston Globe Matthew Gilbert - TV Critic - gilbert@globe.com Joanna Weiss - Pop Culture Reporter and Critic - weiss@globe.com Boston Herald Mark A. Perigard – TV Writer - mperigard@bostonherald.com Austin Chronicles (Austin, TX) (the website is going up/down. Try again later if you see it's down) Belinda Acosta - http://www.austinchronicle.com/gyrobase/In...=Belinda+Acosta (FYI, I couldn't guess Michael Logan's email address. Sorry guys!) Day 6 - Monday- February 25th Media Contacts - (11 TOTAL) (Considering this is Oscar Monday, you might want to, IF POSSIBLE, hold off to sending these until the afternoon or later today as the writers might be swamped until then with Oscar articles) PLEASE NOTE: For *ONLY* those who were contacted last week by Ginia Bellafante of the NY Times and Jonathan Storm of the Philadelphia Enquirer, PLEASE follow-up with them on Monday or Tuesday. Ask them if you could help them in anyway in writing an article. Just *try* not to come off pushy as they are probably both busy writing about the Oscars. HOWEVER, still, please write to them as a kind reminder - but again, ONLY those who they emailed. We don't need to mail bomb these people twice! Thank you!!! Miami Herald Glenn Garvin – TV Reporter/Critic - ggarvin@MiamiHerald.com San Jose Mercury News Charlie McCollum – TV Reporter – cmccollum@mercurynews.com Detroit Free Press Julie Hinds - Entertainment columnist - hinds@freepress.com Columbus Dispatch Molly Willow – TV critic - mwillow@dispatch.com Austin-American Statesman Diane Holloway – TV Reporter - dholloway@statesman.com Denver Post Joanne Ostrow - TV Critic - jostrow@denverpost.com Louisville Courier-Journal David Inman – Free-lance TV Writer - mail@askinman.com Fresno Bee Rick Bentley - rbentley@fresnobee.com The Sacramento Bee Leigh Grogan - lgrogan@sacbee.com Rick Kushman - rkushman@sacbee.com Lynda Hirsch – National Soap Columnist – She doesn’t *just* write spoilers/recaps - couldn’t find a direct email address, but we can *try* to contact her with this page- http://www.nationalledger.com/artman/publi...tml#writeauthor Day 5 - Sunday - February 24th (Day off while entertainment reporters cover the Oscars) Day 4 - Saturday - February 23rd Media Contacts (6 TOTAL) San Antonio Express News Jeanne Jakle – TV Reporter - jjakle@express-news.net Baltimore Sun David L. Zurawik - TV CRITIC - david.zurawik@baltsun.com Dallas Morning News Tom Maurstad - Media Critic - tmaurstad@dallasnews.com Houston Chronicle David Barron – TV Reporter - david.barron@chron.com The Oregonian Peter Ames Carlin - petercarlin@news.oregonian.com Indianapolis Star Shelby Roby-Terry - Arts & Entertainment Editor - shelby.roby-terry@indystar.com DAY 3 - Friday - February 22nd Media Contacts (11 TOTAL) Associated Press <--EXTREMELY IMPORTANT! Frazier Moore – AP TV Writer - fmoore@ap.org Jake Coyle – AP TV Writer – fcoyle@ap.org Newsday Diane Werts – TV writer - diane.werts@newsday.com NY Times Dave Itzkoff – TV Reporter – ditzkoff@nytimes.com Brian Stelter – TV Reporter - bstelter@nytimes.com Bill Carter – TV Reporter – bcarter@nytimes.com Felicia R. Lee – TV Reporter – flee@nytimes.com Ginia Bellafante – TV Reporter – gbellafante@nytimes.com Philadelphia Enquirer David Hiltbrand – TV reporter - dhiltbrand@phillynews.com Jonathan Storm – TV Critic - jstorm@phillynews.com Karen Heller - TV reporter - kheller@phillynews.com DAY 2 - Thursday - February 21st Media Contacts (12 TOTAL) New York Daily News Carolyn Hinsey - sodopinion@aol.com (She writes for the NY Daily News and is Editor of Soap Opera Weekly. What you might think is her NY Daily News email address does not work. However, the the NY Daily News lists one way to reach her via the above address). Richard Huff – TV Reporter – rhuff@nydailynews.com Jordan Lite – TV Reporter – jlite@nydailynews.com David Hinckley - dhinckley@nydailynews.com Cincinnatti Inquirer (P&G HQ is located in Cincinnatti, OH. VERY IMPORTANT NEWSPAPER!) (you might want to add a small paragraph in your emails to this Cincinnati paper that ATWT is owned by P&G, and P&G’s President has donated tons to gay rights and is even an out and proud lesbian. They *might* even contact her for comment on this if you try to make this story seem more *local* then just being about something that happened in TV land. If you don't want to do that, try to someone at least include "P&G" in the topic of your email to try to get the story to be a bit more local, from the reporter's point of view). John Kiesewetter – TV/Entertainment reporter - jkiesewetter@enquirer.com Lori Kurtzman - lkurtzman@enquirer.com - Lori has written articles about gay rights group (not an entertainment reporter, but considering this story might have a “local angle,” it doesn’t matter). Jackie Demaline - jdemaline@enquirer.com- Jackie just wrote an article about a play featuring a gay character. (not really an entertainment reporter, but like above, it doesn’t matter). Cleveland Plain Dealer Mark Dawidziak - TV Reporter - mdawidziak@plaind.com LA Times Lynn Smith – TV Writer - lynn.smith@latimes.com Paul Brownfield – TV Critic - paul.brownfield@latimes.com Chris Barton – TV Writer - chris.barton@latimes.com Matea Gold – TV Writer - matea.gold@latimes.com Wednesday - February 20th Media Contacts (7 TOTAL) Variety brian.lowry@variety.com - Chief TV Critic – Brian Lowry joe.adalian@variety.com - Josef Adalian mike.schneider@variety.com - Michael Schneider Chicago Suntimes Darel Jevens - TV Critic - djevens@suntimes.com http://www.suntimes.com/aboutus/feedback/index.html Chicago Tribune moryan@tribune.com - TV Critic - Maureen Ryan SF Chronicle http://www.sfgate.com/feedback/ tgoodman@sfgate.com - TV Critic - Tim Goodman |
| Subject: Luke & Noah Media Blitz - Wednesday, February 20th to Wednesday, February 27th. Who should participate: EVERYONE! What do you to have to participate: An email address and one written email! Greetings Luke & Noah fans, As you all know, we have campaigned in support of the Luke & Noah storyline with P&G, CBS, and the show itself, and look what it has got us? I think it’s time to shift our strategy a bit and focus on getting media attention. That’s why, over the next week or so, I propose we ALL partake in Support Nuke in the Media Week! Since Valentine's Day, we have talked about our complaints regarding the show's handling of this storyline. However, I haven't read a lot about people *doing* something about it. Hence, I tried to think of a way to get *EVERYONE* involved, even the most lazy among us, so over the next week, that's what I plan on doing. I have collected contact information for tv critics/arts/entertainment writers at various newspapers located in the 20 most populous cities in the United States. Every day during this week-long campaign, I am going to post roughly 5 to 10 links or email addresses in which you can use to write to these people. I will also include links to contact a few magazines as well. I propose that EVERY SINGLE ONE OF YOU OUT THERE READING THIS write to all of these people each and every single day. I want each of these people to be flooded with well over 100 emails (well, that's what I wanted, but we'll make do with the turnout we have!) from us each and every single day! This might seem like a lot of work, but it really isn’t. I would like to start this campaign on Wednesday, February 20th. Between now and then, before we start our write-in effort, I would like everyone to sit down and write a general clear and concise letter regarding As the World Turn’s and its gay storyline. Keep in mind that your letter is going to be directed at a member of the media, so when writing, try to get them engaged in such a way that they will WANT to write on this subject. Once Wednesday the 20th rolls around – when it comes time to write to these newspapers and magazines, all you have to do is copy and paste your original letter into separate emails and change two things: the email address you’re sending the email to – as well as who you are addressing the message to. I believe that if *all* of us unite together to do this, including all of you lurkers - you know who you are!, we might just get some mainstream media attention and pressure put on the show. If that happened, the show would most likely have to respond differently than they have responded thus far with the internet-based media attention focused on them. We might even be able to get P&G or CBS to change their minds regarding how they are censoring this show. While this might not happen, I still think it’s worth the effort to try, don’t you? Normally, I would now write what I would like everyone to include in their emails to the press. However, I don’t think it’s my place to do that. Each of us have been effected by both the positive and negative aspects of this storyline in a different way, so I think it should be left up to each of you as individuals to frame your own email in the manner in which you think would best have its desired effect. Still, for those who aren’t sure what to write when it comes to writing in to these media sources, I would like to help out by telling you what *I* personally plan to write when it comes to sending out these emails. I personally plan on writing and focusing on the following aspects A) ATWT’s bravery for taking the time to feature a gay teenage couple in deep love, no matter how many bigots there are out there watching and complaining B) Jake & Van’s complete and utter dedication to their roles C) ATWT’s amazing handling of the couple – by making them non-stereotypical and by making them the most romantic and “in love” couple on daytime tv and perhaps all of tv (IMHO) and D) CBS/P&G, despite all the good that they have done w/ the story, have discriminated against gay people by continuous censoring of Luke & Noah kissing (by showing it’s ok for straight people to kiss but not gay people – that is a clear sign of discrimination and caving to the bigots watching the show). You might also like to mention who you are - especially if you're a young female. This is the demographic that soap operas crave and also might be a demographic that the press might be surprised to see being interested in a gay storyline. You also might want to link to articles on the internet and youtube videos that provide evidence of our concerns. These are all the subjects I plan to touch on in my email to these media outlets. Feel free, of course, to write about whatever aspects of the show and storyline that you deem fit. I just wanted to put out what I plan to write about when I write my email in order to try to get some people who aren’t sure what to write about a starting point. If any of you who post Luke & Noah videos on youtube or post on any other message boards would like to spread the word about our media blitz, please do so! Also, Heather was nice enough to make a banner for this cause that you can see at the op of this page! If you want to use that banner on your site to link to this page, please do so! The more people who find out about this and write in EACH AND EVERY SINGLE DAY, the better! For those of you participating in this effort, PLEASE start writing your letter as soon as you have the time! This Wednesday, February 20th, I will post the five to ten contacts that I want ALL of you to send your emails to. If we can unite and flood these inboxes with our letters of support and concern, who knows – we just might make a difference after all! Results!
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| cafeaulaitlady | FYI - Gay USA TV Mentions Fan Displeasure | 2 | Mar 2 2008, 4:31 AM EST by Petousette | |
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Thread started: Mar 1 2008, 8:24 PM EST
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Hi everybody,
I just finished watching Gay USA (gayusatv.org) on the local Philadelphia Public Television station WYBE. The hosts are Andy Hume and Ann Northrop. They mentioned at the end of the show the recent fan displeasure regarding the lack of kisses being displayed by Luke and Noah the gay couple on ATWT. In summarizing what they stated: Mr. Hume said that Luke and Noah are affectionately known as Nuke. Ms. Northrop said that she watched ATWT and didn't think that it was too big of a deal, that they had kissed before, and that they did show other forms of affection besides them kissing. Mr. Hume disagreed with Ms. Northrop and agreed with the fans regarding our complaints that if they were a straight couple more kissing and physical displays of affection would be shown. They then featured the youtube video showing the number of times they've almost kissed with the song Passionate Kisses playing in the background. Mr. Hume closed the show by saying that he hopes that they will have them kiss again, show them in bed together, and that they use protection. I was surprised and pleased to see that last week’s campaign is still working. :D |
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| Forever&Alwayz | Support Our Boys!!!!!!! (page: 1 2) | 22 | Feb 29 2008, 3:10 AM EST by kubick | |
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Thread started: Feb 20 2008, 9:07 PM EST
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Hi everyone! I just got through a little bit ago emailing all the above Media Personnel and I am so happy! If we all do this, I believe in my heart that it will work! I wrote my letter from my heart and I hope that you all do the same!Our Boys Will Prevail!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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| AuntieT822 | LA TImes Responds | 13 | Feb 25 2008, 7:15 PM EST by miniman21 | |
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Thread started: Feb 21 2008, 6:37 PM EST
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Lynn Smith from the LA Times has already posted a column online after just getting letters today!!!
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-atwtweb21feb22,0,2414773.story |
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| AuntieT822 | Another article as a result of the media blitz | 6 | Feb 22 2008, 9:18 PM EST by cafeaulaitlady | |
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Thread started: Feb 22 2008, 8:17 AM EST
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David Hinckley from the NY Daily News posted a column today. The link is posted in the results section on this page.
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