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

I completely agree with everything Aitch has said.

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there'd have outrage if a bloke had said that!

(I think)

ewwww

PUT IT AWAY

em-puh-tee

and mn may ring a bell with a few radio stations, newspapers and BBC, ITV and Channel 4 news.

maybe mp could come with a tagline?

Sure?

obviously once misdee gives the go-ahead, foxy.

not at all. i'd love to help, but this scattergun 'who knows a journo' approach isn't very clever. at the moment there's no story i could sell to an ed. there's perhaps a local story but what the family need is the most amount of people getting the message, they don't care if the heart comes from the highlands or lowlands, they just want one.

and a dad is (brutally) not as tragic a story as a cute little kid so we have to give them something else. hence the 'internet mums bombard GMTV for their friend' line i suggested. because that has a feelgood factor for GMTV so begins to be in their interest to cover it. and there are thousands of us on here so we could really go for it.

Aitch

fwiw, this has to be driven my misdee/peter/their families because they will be needed for quotes/whatever so it's their call really

as I said on the other thread, misdee has done stuff with the News of the World before so perhaps it'll be a case of her just calling them up IF SHE WANTS TO

but if anything needs to be done, misdee needs to give the go ahead

Aitch I love you very much.

Are you due on????

what are you talking about, sea? are you a journalist? how do you know how people got stories? for the record, the internet isn't a particularly new phenomenon but i'm completely at a loss as to why a working journalist wouldn't use it, far less owe a site 'payback'.

but then i'm not clear on what this 'easy copy' is anyway? i've seen MN quoted a few times, which no doubt pleases MN Towers enormously as it publicises their business, and i've seen columnists, some of whom post here, mention it.

no-one's clear on the story, though, i note. if you're going to make it 'easy' then someone's going to have to come up with a line for the eds. i've suggested one but i note that it's been ignored. what's everyone else got?

oh thats excellent carrie

aitch they got their stories easily enough before the internet.

still i'd rather see this on the news rather than old jaded leslie philips on the j & r show.

easy copy, fgs... where do people think journalists get stories? if they were imaginative they'd be sodding novelists.

Listen i'm not wanting to piss on anyone's chips but what exactly is the story here? i understand that this is a horrific situation but what is different about this one? because if you do get through to any journalists that's what their editor will be asking. and they ask it quite forcefully, ime.

lorraine kelly's email is probably [email protected], btw. although it likely won't be her who opens them. a good few hundred emails might catch her eye. cc'd to the GMTV newsroom etc.

I mentioned easy copy, I did not call anyone lazy. But rest assured I am off to bed soon so will be unable to insult anyone else.

Would Max Clifford help?

Hunker

aye, well calling them 'lazy' isn't exactly going to endear them to us...

Aitch it just means that we have provided easy copy in the past. If we keep this bumped, it could catch the eye of a lurking journo.

Just thinking out loud in a difficult situation.

well then the smartest thing to do is start a thread with a link to the address of Lorraine Kelly @ GMTV and absolutely bombard it with requests for her to cover the story, all written individually. then that becomes the story, iykwim?

because the sad unalterable fact is that there are lots of people on the transplant list, so it's not a story.

whereas lots of individual women coming together In One Night (like, everyone on MN tonight for example) to beg for some coverage on GMTV because it offers a slim hope that our friend's husband might not die becomes a Power of the Internet story. a scattergun 'who do you know in the media?' approach is less likely to get a result imo.

the little girl Zoe who featured on the news last month at the top of the european heart transplant list was on the news as her family contacted local bbc who really supported them which got it onto the national agenda.

and on the day she got her heart transplant, three hearts were available. I'm not sure where all the hearts came from, I'm assuming they came from the uk, as no mention was made of the private jet which was on standby. that being the case, it would be reasonable to guess that the publicity did put it in people's minds.

i know you've probably thought of this, but i hope it's some encouragement.

I think we'd like to find a way to do something positive, even if we can't (obviously) directly influence a family to donate a heart to Peter.

oh for goodness sakes, Red will be in bed for a month before it's on the shelves.