{"id":9880,"date":"2023-01-12T09:51:27","date_gmt":"2023-01-12T14:51:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/?p=9880"},"modified":"2023-07-24T15:37:36","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T19:37:36","slug":"words-of-wisdom-to-media-representatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/2023\/01\/words-of-wisdom-to-media-representatives\/","title":{"rendered":"Words of wisdom to media representatives"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We&#8217;re having an interfaith prayer vigil this afternoon, for Cohasset resident Ana Walshe. (I just tested positive for COVID, so I can&#8217;t go.) Since this is a story that&#8217;s been in the news, as soon as word got out about the prayer vigil, our church started getting calls from media representatives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the media representatives who called First Parish was just plain rude. An email we got sounded pushy and not at all sympathetic. Another church got a call offering to help publicize the event for us, something we really don&#8217;t want. The attitude of media representatives seems to be, &#8220;We need news, and you&#8217;re going to provide it for us!&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So here are some words of wisdom to media representatives:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>It would be wise for you to remember to follow the norms of ordinary politeness. If you are rude, we won&#8217;t forget. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It would be wise for you to remember that you may be talking to someone who has strong feelings about this issue. If you sound callous or uncaring, we won&#8217;t forget.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It would be wise for you to remember that we don&#8217;t need you any more to publicize local events. Social media and word of mouth work better.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>All of which can be boiled down to: Treat people nicely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong> This afternoon, I received email from a reporter asking for an interview. I replied that I had COVID and was not able to give an interview. The reporter said they hoped I&#8217;d feel better. How nice! You can be sure that I remembered that person&#8217;s name, and if they contact me again I will be predisposed to talk with them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re having an interfaith prayer vigil this afternoon, for Cohasset resident Ana Walshe. (I just tested positive for COVID, so I can&#8217;t go.) Since this is a story that&#8217;s been in the news, as soon as word got out about the prayer vigil, our church started getting calls from media representatives. One of the media &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/2023\/01\/words-of-wisdom-to-media-representatives\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Words of wisdom to media representatives&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[949,739],"class_list":["post-9880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pop-culture","tag-cohasset","tag-covid-19"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9880"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9883,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9880\/revisions\/9883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}