Rhetorica joins The Spotlight Project
I’m pleased to announce a new feature on Rhetorica. It’s called The Spotlight Project–a way to e-mail individual posts to specific journalists and news media organizations with your own commentary.
At the bottom of each post you’ll see a “Spotlight” link next to the permalink and comment links. Clicking it takes you to The Spotlight Project, which offers you a list of contact information and allows you to forward the post of your choice to specific journalists. I am very proud of the readers who frequent this site. According to our correspondence and my server logs, you are an elite and politically diverse group of students, academics, journalists, and just plain smart people of all kinds. So I really don’t need to caution you about how such a system could be abused. That said, here’s the “but” for the minority of my readers who might not understand:
- Please be polite and reasonable.
- Abusing the system could lessen its effectiveness or neutralize it completely.
- Praise is just as important as informed criticism.
- If you have any problems, please report them here.
This is an exciting new feature with a lot of promise. I’m sure others in the blogosphere will be watching to see how it goes on its initial test launch here and at other sites. Please take it for a spin, and let me know your impressions in the comments. (This post was adapted from the model posted at firedoglake).
[A note on ideology: I'm participating in this project because I like the idea of making it easier for readers to contact the media and spotlight those issues and conversations springing from the blogosphere that journalists ought to be aware of.]
