On 8/12/05, Clytie Siddall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Should we write to them, do you think? I don't have much experience > with the media, but there's a member on the Volunteers Linuxchix list > who has a lot. Does it work to write in on occasions like this?
Write to them respectfully, addressing what should be a reporter's main concern: representing their subjects correctly. If you point out that they managed to emphasize the kind of stereotypes and promote the behaviours that the Debian-Women project wants to redress, they might not pay any attention to you, after all they work for their paper, not for Debian-Women. But if you point out that thanks to the innuendo in the headline and first paragraph the Debian-Women project was misrepresented, and that readers might be misinformed into thinking Debian-Women is not what it really is, then they might listen to you because you will have pointed out that they didn't do *their* work, not that they didn't do *yours*. I make my living writing for different media and I have worked in advocacy; these two approaches have very different results. -- javier
