Friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend us your multimedia
So there's an election going on - have you heard?
While we scruffy media types here at Decision 2008 have been running to provide you with coverage, there's been so much going on that there's no way for us to get to every rally, forum, whistle stop and fundraiser.
So that's where you can play a role.
Did you put your camera phone to good use at a campaign event? Do you have some video lying about that you'd like to share with the world? Did your local commissioner candidate give a rip-roaring good speech that you got on tape? Was the baby that Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama kissed YOUR baby? Or do you have a blog post that you think is particularly descriptive of a recent political scene?
Send them our way. E-mail us links, photos, videos, audio clips or whatever to mbinker@news-record.com or gwitt@news-record.com. We'll post them right here on Decision 2008. And we'll take submissions right up through Election Day.
Some guidelines:
- * Please send us your real name and where you live (Greensboro, High Point, etc...) so we know where stuff is coming from and can properly credit it. If you don't want your name used, let us know that in the e-mail. By sending us something, you're giving us permission to use it on the blog, elsewhere online or in the paper.
- * We're mostly looking for events from the past two weeks or stuff that you shoot over the next six days. Snaps from February just aren't as keen.
- * Any race with a Guilford County or Rockingham County connection is fair game, from the President on down. That includes school board races, bond campaigns, etc...
- * We're looking for local content, so that post you just love by the organic farmer outside of Eugene, Oregon isn't going to help us out.
- * Yes, we'll take stuff from campaigns but see our next and last guideline.
- * Just because you send us something doesn't mean we have to post it. We will likely reject something if it's vulgar, blatantly false or of such poor quality it makes our ears bleed when we process it.
- * We may crop and edit to get something down to listenable and/or downloadable size.
That's it. Again, zip us an e-mail (mbinker@news-record.com and/or gwitt@news-record.com). We're not tech gurus but we might be able to help out if you have a small issue. We'd love to give everyone who contributes a t-shirt our something, but our bosses are, um, cost conscious. So you'll have to settle for the psychic reward of helping to better inform your neighbors about the upcoming primary.
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IF HILLARY WINS AND OUR ELECTED OFFICIALS ENDORSE OBAMA --- COME NOVEMBER --- WE ALL NEED TO VOTE TO REPLACE ALL MEMBERS OF CONGRESS. OUR ELECTED REPRESENTATIVES NEED TO LISTEN TO "WE THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES" --- NOT TO A "WANNA-BE-PRESIDENT-IN-TRAINING WHO HAS RUN HIS ENTIRE CAMPAIGN ON LIES AND HAS TOO MANY TIES TO TERRORISTS AND ANTI-AMERICAN FRIENDS". We American’s elected ALL members of Congress, as well as state and local officials, to be “our voice” --- we are tired of you taking our voices away.
MAYA ANGELOU SAID: “Hillary Clinton is a prayer of every American who really longs for fair play. Working men and women have had their jobs snatched from underneath them, their homes snatched away from them. And what we need, I think, is a person, a President who can make a difference in our country. She intends to help our country become what it can become. She dares to say human beings are more alike than we are unalike. I watched her become interested in public health and in education for all the children. And I watched her stand. I have found the person I think would be the best president for the United States of America.”
VOTE HILLARY 2008!
Posted on May 3, 2008 2:30 PM