*** Help Peter get a heart campaign*** who has contacts in the media??

Thanks for the update Lisa. Tell her we are all thinking of her and Peter and the girls. Just really really wish we could do something.

try mediauk.com if you look at the individual media (radio, newpapers etc) there is alphabet list with all the different companies.
You can find out names of news directors/managers and target them directly.

poor misdee, it's so enormous what's happening...

Oh bless her.

Please read!

I have spoken to sarah this morning and passed on all your well wishes and thought. I have asked her her thoughts on media coverage. She has said she wants to protect the girls from this devesting news as long as possible and so has said no to media right now. Peter is struggling alot right now and she feels the extra weight would be too much.
She thanks you for all the support and good thoughts, but want to raise awareness of transplants in general so has asked me to ask MNHQ to put a link on their home page, which im just about to do.
Thanks

Lisa

We could do an e-mail campaign to everyone in our contacts lists to ask people to register as donors and to forward on to their contacts (a bit like what happened in the Madeleine McCann case).

Agree with vvv, if this goes ahead then it needs to be taken on by a publicist, someone who knows who to talk to/how to pitch this story for maximum impact.

And that will then come down to money, I?m sure that publicists don?t work for free, so we?d need to find out how to get a publicist/what it would cost.

I think if Misdee and Peter decide they want any publicity (and they may well not want to and I understand totally if that's the case), they should see if they can get a publicist to guide them through it.

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OK just read other thread - ignore my last post.

Praying praying that a heart comes available.

And is Peter actually well enough for any of this? AFAIR he is still very ill and it will be a couple of weeks before he will be back on list.

all these things are fine and admirable and would work well in the longer term, oops, but my understanding is that time is of the essence wrt Peter's condition.

so on the offchance that a family may lose someone and have their own minds changed re donation in time for Peter to benefit it is surely best to have a larger, more focussed campaign using a service that can turn round stories quickly.

to get onto a news-type media outlet it has to be news, iykwim? not just an interesting or emotional story but to have a current element as a hook. the time pressure might be a hook yes, but what makes that different from others on the transplant list? these are the sorts of questions that will be asked in a media environment, i can assure you. best if we have some sort of answer to them, rather than wasting time that's not ours to waste, iykwim?

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I agree with aitch, it just isn?t as simple as contacting everyone we know in the media, or even emailing one particular media source on mass, they must get thousands of emails every week, from people who want their story covered because it is important to them. Obviously it goes without saying that this is ultimately misdee, and peter?s family?s call, but I also think that before we do anything about this, we also need to seriously consider the repercussions of making this national news.

If Misdee goes on gmtv/sky news/bbc breakfast etc to plead for a heart for Peter, they will want to follow it through. They won?t just want the story/plea, they will want the after story too, and while if Peter gets a new heart the story will have a happy ending and everyone will want to share it, if the outcome is not positive, gmtv/sky news will want to share that as well. Is that really something these people should be subjected to?

(vvv is a bloke, though) name's martyn, works in IT, can't get a girlfriend. hi martyn!

where have you been?

Well, there is often outrage at things blokes say - warranted or not

But aitch knows me and she knows I love her and that I care. I wouldnt say it to just anyone.

I know I'm hormonal too so I'll say what I like and YOU WILL ALL PUT UP WITH IT OKAY [hard stare]

oh good, thanks. Phew. Can go to bed now.

gotcha 100x, i feel kinda the same but have decided to Go With It nevertheless.