Getting their message out
After Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr. delivered his State of the State speech outlining an ambitious education funding package, Utah Democrats countered ... er chimed in ... with their own plan calling for even more money for education — 10 percent each year for the next five years.
The minority party's slick video presentation featured Holladay Democratic Rep. Carol Spackman Moss, a retired schoolteacher, and TV furniture salesman/former news anchor Phil Riesen.
But the effect was lost on many newspaper readers. Democratic press officers apparently forgot the rest of the media — the ones who deal in the written word. Some newspaper reporters got the transcript. But Salt Lake City's two daily newspapers, The Salt Lake Tribune and the Deseret Morning News, did not.
"In my focus on the video, I neglected print media," a contrite House Minority Spokesman Lee Martinez wrote in an email Wednesday morning. "For what it's worth at this time, here you go."
Too late.
-- Rebecca Walsh
The minority party's slick video presentation featured Holladay Democratic Rep. Carol Spackman Moss, a retired schoolteacher, and TV furniture salesman/former news anchor Phil Riesen.
But the effect was lost on many newspaper readers. Democratic press officers apparently forgot the rest of the media — the ones who deal in the written word. Some newspaper reporters got the transcript. But Salt Lake City's two daily newspapers, The Salt Lake Tribune and the Deseret Morning News, did not.
"In my focus on the video, I neglected print media," a contrite House Minority Spokesman Lee Martinez wrote in an email Wednesday morning. "For what it's worth at this time, here you go."
Too late.
-- Rebecca Walsh
7:41 PM
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3 Comments:
While I agree that you should have had a chance to read it sooner, I'm left with feeling that you'd would ignore like you did last year (the SLTrib 2006), or, selectively grab an introduction sentence off the first paragraph and report that that was the whole thing (DesNews 2006).
I agree you should have received earlier, but I have to tell you, I don't think it would have impacted your coverage much. My $0.02
I wish I'd waited a couple more hours until my internal grammar check and proof reader was fully online.
Nothing so quickly defuses a written dialog more than mucking up the pitch.
I need a sign on my computer at home that says "no blogging before 7am"
What are you even doing awake at 5 a.m.? (I don't do anything but mumble profanities anytime before 10 a.m.)
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