Media Addresses to Write to

[xmasdale]

Mike Stagman has sent us the following useful media e-mail address list. along with his advice on how to use it.

Noel




Regarding a Campaigning section:

I. Source materials for letters to Newsmedia
We wish to educate and activate people, not only about 9/11 & 7/7. But about the continuing subversion & destruction of our liberties and democracy. 9/11 & 7/7, etc., --- the whole bogus business of "Islamic terrorists" --- serves as a pretext for (1) creating an internal police state (to crush opposition to policies) and (2) rapacious aggression abroad.

We are sending out to you materials on the above subjects --- source materials for letters and talks. You will also find them on our website. Note the articles in mainstream print (finally !) debunking the 9/11 propaganda: A.L. Kennedy's "War on Paperclips" in the Guardian, 11 May 05; and Tony Rennell's "9/11 On trial" in the Daily Mail of 6 August 05. (Also a number of letters-to=-he-editor in the Scottish Herald.) WE MUST EXPLOIT THIS BREAKTHROUGH with an immediate, sustained LETTERS CAMPAIGN.

So please comply in your spare-time. We need a steady stream of letters-to-editors and letters to journalists and political editors -- followed up, if you will, by telephone calls.
[Note: Of course, write as individuals, not members of a group, and put things in your own words. If you mass mail letters-to-editors, naturally use the BCC, blind copy line. To journalists and political editors, do take a little extra time to address them individually, Dear Mr. Jones, etc.]

You yourself may not see your letter published, but the more that people with the same basic idea are writing such letters, the more likely that our colleague's letter WILL be printed. Moreover, the more letters received by editors and journalists, the sooner the editors will begin to instruct their journalists to take up a certain matter, to correct any previous bias, to open things up.

Remember that these newspapers reach hundreds of thousands and even a few million people. So please write, and do follow it up with a telephone call.--- or just call, if strapped for time, and ask that the message be given to the political editor and any political journalists who might be interested.

Here is a list of suggested email addresses:

LETTERS-To-The-EDITOR:
letters@dailymail.co.uk, letters@mailonsunday.co.uk, andy.coulson@newsoftheworld.co.uk, emily.vincenzi@mirror.co.uk, news@sundaymirror.co.uk, letters@independent.co.uk, sundaynews@independent.co.uk, letters@guardian.co.uk, dtletters@telegraph.co.uk, letters@observer.co.uk, robert.thomson@thetimes.co.uk, john.witherow@sundaytimes.co.uk, letters@liverpoolecho.co.uk, yp.newsdesk@ypn.co.uk, eped@ypn.co.uk, newsdesk@men.co.uk., letters@standard.co.uk, letters_ts@scotsman.com, letters@theherald.co.uk, writeback@belfasttelegraph.co.uk, n.doran@irishnews.co.uk

EDITORS & JOURNALISTS:
andrew.neather@standard.co.uk, tim.hames@thetimes.co.uk, tony.rennell@compuserve.com, philip.johnston@telegraph.co.uk, george.jones@telegraph.co.uk (political editor), andrew.sparrow@telegraph.co.uk, a.grice@independent.co.uk (Andrew Grice is political editor), m.woolf@independent.co.uk (Marie Woolf), b.russell@independent.co.uk (Ben Russel), michael.white@guardian.co.uk (political editor), comment@guardian.co.uk, patrick.wintour@guardian.co.uk, gaby.hinsliff@observer.co.uk (pol. editor), ned.temko@observer.co.uk, simon.heffer@dailymail.co.uk, stephen.glover@dailymail.co.uk, suzy.walker@dailymail.co.uk --- Suzy Walker is an 'allocator' who will take your letter and send it across to journalists she deems might be interested;
To contact John Pilger, email info@newstatesman.co.uk, and write in the subject line "attention John Pilger; to contact the editor of the New Statesman, John Kampfner (he was formerly the political editor) write info@newstatesman.co.uk and put "attention John Kampfner" in the subject line.
hmacdonell@scotsman.com, news@theherald.co.uk (political reporter Colin McDiarmid gets this); schnews@brighton.co.uk
features@standard.co.uk, (Evening Standard), nmcadam@belfasttelegraph.co.uk (Noel McAdam, political journalist), w.graham@irishnews.com (William Graham, political journalist)


II. Educating & activating families/friends/associates&acquaintances --- email them, telephone them, post them letters, send them our leaflets. For the even more energetic, print out leaflets and hand them out in your neighborhood/community.

III. MPs --- We need to get to them. Telephone your message to your MP's assistant, and ask whether you should email or post a letter about your concern. (talk & write) Decidedly best is to join with 1, 2, or possibly 3 other people (forming a small delegation) make an appointment to meet with your MP, ansd visit him/her with information, leaving the MP a couple of our different information-sheets ('leaflets').

IV. PEERS --- write them c/o the House of Lords Also, call and leave a message at their office in the House of Lords, on their message machine if they have no assistant. (Don't be nervous if by chance the Lord or Baroness answers the phone. Just give them your message and ask them to protect our liberties and democracy. The vast majority of them will by openly but certainly secretly sympathetic. On our website will be a list of some 500 Peers whom we know are OK.

V. Regional legislative representatives (MSPs, AMs, MEPs) ---Call and write them.

VI. Lord Justices --- Write them (probably c/o the House of Lords) and strongly urge them to protect our liberties and democracy. Try to open their eyes to the bogus character of 9/11 & 7/7 with a few calmly stated facts --- and to stress that even if Islamic terrorism existed, we never had such terroristic Acts and measures during World War II and the Northern Ireland Troubles, and there is no excuse for what the Government has been doing.

Vii. Direct Action --- Figure out how to publicise our causes. The more frequent and visible our messages, the sooner our fact- and logic-based statements will sound reasonable compared to the utterly wild conspiracy theory that one guy in a cave in Afghanistan could pull off what no number of governments could have accomplished --- except for the U.S. Government.

VIII. Raising Money for Leaflets & other expenses --- Find our the best prices for large numbers of (my suggestion) double-sided A4s with one colour (red) with the black-and-white. Raising money is facilitated if one tells people, for example, that £30 pounds buys 1,000 of the leaflets you show (or send) to them, that we are trying to educate and activate the British people to rescue their freedoms, and 1000 leaflets could inform several thousand people.

Cheers,

Mike Stagman

[TRUTH]

United Kingdom Media
letters@theargus.co.uk (Argus, The)
letters@bathchron.co.uk (Bath Chronicle, The)
newsonline@bbc.co.uk (BBC News)
editor@belfasttelegraph.co.uk (Belfast Telegraph)
edit.scot@bigissue.com (Big Issue in Scotland. The)
edit_lon@bigissue.com (Big Issue, The)
thepost@mrn.co.uk (Birmingham Post)
clive_mariner@essex-news.co.uk (Braintree and Witham Times)
mailbag@halifaxcourier.co.uk (Brighouse Echo)
epletters@bepp.co.uk (Bristol Evening Post)
letters@bmj.com (British Medical Journal, The)
chemdrug@dotpharmacy.com (Chemist and Druggist)
letters@soci.org (Chemistry & Industry Magazine)
newsroom@cheshirenews.co.uk (Chester Chronicle)
gazette_postbag@essex-news.co.uk (Colchester Evening Gazette)
letters@thecourier.co.uk (Courier, The)
letters@dailymail.co.uk (Daily Mail)
editors@dailyrecord.co.uk (Daily Record)
dtletters@telegraph.co.uk (Daily Telegraph)
edit@dorsetecho.co.uk (Dorset Echo)
eadtletters@ecng.co.uk (East Anglian Daily Times)
EDPletters@archant.co.uk (Eastern Daily Press)
editorial@theecologist.org (Ecologist, The)
letters@economist.com (Economist, The)
lettersen@scotsman.com (Edinburgh Evening News)
editorial@essex-chronicle.co.uk (Essex Chronicle)
letters@theenquirer.co.uk (Essex Enquirer)
gazette_postbag@thisisessex.co.uk (Essex Evening Gazette)
mailbag@halifaxcourier.co.uk (Evening Courier)
ee.editor@ajl.co.uk (Evening Express)
EveningNewsLetters@archant.co.uk (Evening News)
letters@standard.co.uk (Evening Standard)
nigel.pickover@ecng.co.uk (Evening Star, The)
letters@coventry-telegraph.co.uk (Evening Telegraph)
tony.bacon@northantsnews.co.uk (Evening Telegraph)
letters@eveningtimes.co.uk (Evening Times)
echonews@westcountrypublications.co.uk (Express & Echo)
express.letters@express.co.uk (Express, Express on Sunday)
letters.editor@ft.com (Financial Times)
dholden@nep.co.uk (Gloucestershire Echo)
viewpoint@grimsbytelegraph.co.uk (Grimsby Telegraph)
weekly@guardian.co.uk (Guardian Weekly, The)
letters@guardian.co.uk (Guardian, The)
newsroom@guernsey-press.com (Guernsey Press and Star)
letters@hamhigh.co.uk (Hampstead And Highgate Express, The)
jparker@westcountrypublications.co.uk (Herald Express)
letters@theherald.co.uk (Herald, The)
letters@examiner.co.uk (Huddersfield Daily Examiner, The)
letters@hulldailymail.co.uk (Hull Daily Mail)
letters@independent.co.uk (Independent )
letters@independent.co.uk (Independent on Sunday)
jir@janes.co.uk (Jane's Intelligence Review)
lancet.editorial@elsevier.co.uk (Lancet, The)
editorial@leamingtoncourier.co.uk (Leamington Spa Courier)
tgobey@nep.co.uk (Leicester Mercury)
letters@dailypost.co.uk (Liverpool Daily Post)
edit@lrb.co.uk (London Review of Books)
letters@mailonsunday.co.uk (Mail on Sunday, The)
postbag@mcr-evening-news.co.uk (Manchester Evening News)
mensamag@easynet.co.uk (Mensa Magazine)
letters@readingchronicle.co.uk (Midweek News)
jenny@mkcitizen.co.uk (Milton Keynes Citizen)
jenny@mkcitizen.co.uk (Milton Keynes Sunday Citizen)
mailbox@mirror.co.uk (Mirror, The)
NatureReviews@nature.com (Nature Reviews - Cancer)
letters@newscientist.com (New Scientist)
letters@newstatesman.co.uk (New Statesman)
letters@newarkadvertiser.co.uk (Newark Advertiser)
letters@cumbrian-newspapers.co.uk (News & Star)
your.letters@news-of-the-world.co.uk (News of the World)
letters@thenews.co.uk (News, The)
jmarsden@nepdc.co.uk (North Devon Journal)
graham.tebbutt@northantsnews.co.uk (Northampton Chronicle & Echo)
letters&poems@nottinghameveningpost.co.uk (Nottingham Evening Post)
letters@observer.co.uk (Observer, The)
editorial@oldham-chronicle.co.uk (Oldham Evening Chronicle)
postbag@orcadian.co.uk (Orcadian, The)
kevin.booth@peterboroughnow.co.uk (Peterborough Evening News)
editor@petevtel.demon.co.uk (Peterborough Evening Telegraph)
pj.editor@ajl.co.uk (Press and Journal, The)
editors@readersdigest.co.uk (Reader's Digest)
editorial@reading-epost.co.uk (Reading Evening Post)
runcorn.news@cheshirenews.co.uk (Runcorn & Widnes Weekly News)
letters_sos@scotlandonsunday.com (Scotland On Sunday)
Letters_ts@scotsman.com (Scotsman)
starletters@sheffieldnewspapers.co.uk (Sheffield Star)
starmail@shropshirestar.co.uk ( Shropshire Star)
solihull_times@mrn.co.uk (Solihull Times)
letters@slp.co.uk (South London Press)
letters@soton-echo.co.uk (print)
or editor@dailyecho.co.uk (online)
(Southern Daily Echo)
letters@spectator.co.uk (Spectator, The)
stockportexpress@gmwn.co.uk (Stockport Express)
letters@the-sun.co.uk (Sun, The)
editor@sundayherald.com (Sunday Herald, The)
mailbox@sundaymail.co.uk (Sunday Mail)
SundayMercury@mrn.co.uk (Sunday Mercury)
stnews@telegraph.co.uk (Sunday Telegraph)
letters@sunday-times.co.uk (Sunday Times)
editor@surreymirror.co.uk (Surrey Mirror)
steve.dyson@eveninggazette.co.uk (Teeside Evening Gazette)
letters@thetimes.co.uk (Times, The)
weeklyworker@cpgb.org.uk (Weekly Worker)
editor@westgaz.co.uk (Western Gazette)
readers@wme.co.uk (Western Mail)
glawrence@newswilts.co.uk (Wiltshire Gazette & Herald)
letters@wimbledonguardian.co.uk (Wimbledon Guardian)
newsroom@worksop-guardian.co.uk (Worksop Guardian)
letters@worthingtoday.co.uk (Worthing Herald)
editor@eveningleader.co.uk (Wrexham Leader)
Wrexham@chronicle.u-net.com (Wrexham Mail)
newsdesk@ycp.co.uk (York Evening Press)
news@thisisleeds.co.uk (Yorkshire Evening Post)
newsdesk@ycp.co.uk (Yorkshire Evening Press)
yp.editor@ypn.co.uk (Yorkshire Post)

These are from:
http://forum.mpacuk.org/showthread.php?t=2402

[scubadiver]

A word of warning:

Please remember that some of the big newspapers are owned by Rupert Murdoch, one of the most pro-war republican supporters who has ever lived. Any amount of letters or emails will be ignored.

I think pursuading the local newspapers and the less mainstream media would be more successful.

[Mark Gobell]

Another way to raise awareness is via your local or regional newspapers.

The Media UK website http://www.mediauk.com/ provides a comprehensive contacts list of all national & regional UK media, not just newspapers but TV, Radio and Magazines.

The Newspaper Society http://www.newspapersoc.org.uk/ is a portal for all of Britain's regional newspapers.

Their database http://www.nsdatabase.co.uk/ is a very useful resource for finding newspapers published in your area.

Exercise:

I want to write to my local newspapers.

To find out all of the titles available in your area:

Visit http://www.nsdatabase.co.uk/

at the bottom of the page there is a search facilty called:

Choose a geography to search on

The search options are versatile.

Searching by my Local Government Area (Council) which is called East Hertfordshire:

The results show the demographic data and all of the local newspapers in my immediate area, in this case there are 12 titles:

Bishop's Stortford Citizen
Cambridge Evening News
East Herts Herald
Epping Forest Guardian Series
Harlow & Bishop's Stortford Herald
Harlow Star Series
Hertfordshire Star
Herts & Essex Observer Group
Herts & Essex Star Classified
Herts Mercury Series
Royston Crow
Welwyn & Hatfield Times

Other useful information is shown for each title such as free or paid for title, circulation data, contact numbers etc.

Clicking on each title reveals who owns the newspaper.

In this case all of the 12 titles in my area are owned by 3 different companies.

Newsquest Media Group - 2 Titles
Iliffe News & Media - 6 Titles
Archant - 4 Titles

Click on the View JICREG data link on the results page to see the readership statistics.

The Area AIR column shows the total number of people in my area over the age of 15 who read each title.

Adding the Area AIR figures up reveals that in my council area alone, the newspapers of these 4 companies reach the minds of some 196,763 people every week.

The fact that the demographic data shows a total population of only 104,882 simply means that some of us read more than one newspaper.

The Total AIR column shows the total number of people in all areas over the age of 15 who read each title.

Adding the Total AIR figures up reveals that the newspapers of these 4 companies reach the minds of some 616,715 people every week.

Moving on to the 3 companies who own these titles in my area.

Newsquest Media Group - http://www.newsquest.co.uk/factfile.html

Newsquest is one of the UK's largest regional newspaper publishers with more than 300 titles including 17 dailies, with a weekly readership of 12 million.

Newsquest in turn is owned by US media giant Gannet Co. Inc. which owns 90 US daily papers including the best selling USA Today, and 22 TV stations.

Iliffe News & Media - http://www.yit.co.uk/

YIT is a private company owned by the Iliffe family, with operations in the UK and Canada, and interests in newspaper publishing, television, electronic media, marinas and property.

Iliffe News & Media, a major part of the privately owned Yattendon Investment Trust run by the Iliffe family, comprising: Cambridge Newspapers; Herts & Essex Newspapers; LSN Media; Staffordshire Newspapers and Channel Television, the independent ITV television station for the Channel Islands.

One of the top 10 regional newspaper groups, Iliffe publishes 3 evening newspapers, 7 paid-for weekly newspapers, 18 free newspapers plus 7 Sunday free newspapers, 1 quarterly & 9 monthly glossy magazines with a circulation of 1.2 million per week.

Archant - http://archant.co.uk

Archant is the UK's largest independently-owned regional media business, publishing around 100 daily & weekly titles with a circulation of about 3 million.

So, the 3 companies that own the 12 regional titles published in my local council area have a combined circulation of around 16 million per week between them in the UK.

Try this exercise in your local area.

[IronSnot]

I found these somewhere.

[Mark Gobell]

Ironsnot

Your file contains lots of email addresses at the Council on Foreign Relations.

I'm not so sure they are our target audience.

[IronSnot]

[Mark Gobell]

Ironsnot - not sure what you mean when you say "Can you justify this" ?

[IronSnot]

I hadn't really looked at the list. I thought you were just assuming based on the names of a few of the people on the list but I see 112 are crf.org. To be honest I knew nothing of this organisation until a few minutes ago. I see fromm their website that their job is to promote understanding of America's 'role' in the world.

But I'd also like to point out that there's 314 other names there, a lot of them in the media.

[scar]

"To be honest I knew nothing of this organisation until a few minutes ago."

You should find out IronSnot.
It might open your mind to a few things you appear to ridicule on here.

[IronSnot]

aha

I'm sure they're pricks, but I'm also sure their influence is exaggerated. I'll go to conspiracytheory.org and find out shall I?

[kunnandi]

Murdoch owns about 140 papers worldwide. I was thinking a collective free newspaper could work. We could all submit interesting articles based purely on fact from various sources, print them up in A4 with plastic spines and send them to organisations, charities and workplaces once a month.