I simply asked ABC why they weren't covering in their news, the story of this crazy pastor''

[crunch60]

Charles L. Worley, North Carolina Pastor: Put Gays And Lesbians In Electrified Pen To Kill Them Off
Thank you for your request to ABC News.

This was their response to me...the big run around! I like the part where they said "Not solicited by our subsidiaries"

To submit a story idea to one of the ABC News shows listed below, write a single page letter including your name, phone number, and address. Include photocopies of backup information. On the outside of the envelope, write "Story Idea." If a producer is interested in your story, he/she will contact you. Here are the show addresses:

20/20
147 Columbus Avenue
New York, NY 10023

Primetime/What Would You Do?
147 Columbus Avenue
New York, NY 10023

Nightline/This Week
1717 DeSales Street NW
Washington, DC 20036

ABC World News with Diane Sawyer
47 West 66th Street, 2nd Floor
New York, NY 10023

Good Morning America
147 Columbus Avenue
New York, NY 10023


If you are submitting a LOCAL news story:

Go to ABC.com
Go to the bottom of the home page and click on “FAQ”
Click on Question #2
Click on “nationwide affiliate map”
Follow the instructions to get the website, address and phone number for your local ABC station.

Note: The Company’s long-established policy does not allow us to accept for review or consideration any ideas, suggestions, or creative materials not solicited by us or our subsidiaries. Therefore, in the event that you have submitted such content, please be advised that the submission has been forwarded to the Company’s legal department for handling.

This email has been sent to you from an outbound email account that will not accept inbound mail. Therefore, please do not respond to this email.

[randome]

1. Jesus Christ! Snail mail? In the 21st century?

That's bullshit and they know it.

[fredamae]

2. If one wants MSM to be better

and I agree there is Lots of room for more "truthiness"-I responded and just turned them off. They only care about ratings and money. If their current form of messaging is working and they continue to get attention, be it critical or positive then the status quo is working. Remember: Bad attention is still better than No attention.
It is we, the consumer that drives the stories based upon whats "hot" on the "internets" and getting the Most views/conversations.

[Skidmore]

3. Shall we all join in a mass request for coverage of this

hate mongering cockroach? I'm game.

[crunch60]

5. I would love to do that! Great Suggestion. Mass requests. ACB has to submitt the News story

to their legal department before reporting it? I thought this was an important story, because this so called "Pastor" was promoting a hate crime against the LGBT community. This asshat should be thrown out of his church.

[randome]

7. They must have a few Twitter accounts somewhere.

[Skidmore]

10. Here's a link to

e-mail to various new programs at ABC.

http://abcnews.go.com/Site/page?id=3068843

[Atman]

4. I hate to rain on this parade, but...

There is nothing unusual about this. Most media outlets won't even OPEN an unsolicited envelope, because if they even glance at the contents, and then several years later develop a similar idea, then they invariably get sued for infringement or plagiarism.

This is common practice. Magazines don't accept unsolicited article ideas, studio's don't accept unsolicited scripts. If you want to get it through, you send them a letter FIRST explaining that you have an idea for "Project X" that you'd like to submit. They document it, covering their asses for later law suits, and then if they're interested, they'll tell you to send in your script.

Seriously, I know you must be crushed to find out that there is no big conspiracy, but there is no big conspiracy. This is just the way media companies do business.

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[crunch60]

9. Anyone who is aware of what is going on in the MSM, knows that we have a controlled

media. They report what they are told to report. My point is, simply report important news as it happens, you know like Walter Cronkite or Edward R Murrow would have done. I don't like the brainwashing the MSM is conducting on TV and our airways. Some people believe this crap.

The right wind evangelicals of the GOP, have done insurmountable damage to society at large, and they need their hate filled rants exposed.

[Atman]

11. I agree with you, but that doesn't make your paranoia correct.

I totally agree...the media should just report the news. If someone gives them a "tip," they should follow it up. In fact, that is what many tv stations (and major cable outlets) now do...they offer a "tip line," or "iReporter" bullshit, which, upon uploading your video or idea, you legally sign away your rights.

I hate the current media as much as anybody, but you have to understand where this is coming from...people send shit to them all the time. Ideas for stories, human interest crap, ground-breaking coverage. It happens all the time. And let's say this happens at CNN -- they get an unsolicited story idea from Joe Schmoe on the very day CNN's producers are already working on a similar story. A few days later, the story airs, and Joe Schmoe SUES THEM because he sent the story to them, and he thinks it was his idea!

This happens all the time. Some contributors might be sincere, but there are others who are gold digging. So Corporate Legal has told the producers to simply reject anything that even hints of being an unsolicited submission. They can't even look at it, for fear of being sued by the Idiots Of The United States.

This has NOTHING to do with the "right wing evangelicals of the GOP." This has everything to do with Americans being stupid lazy bastards who sue the transit company if someone farts on the subway. Every corporation is litigation-shy. So-called news channels are no different.

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[lpbk2713]

6. It never even was touched by human eyes.

"Do not respond" means don't waste your time with any more emails.

This is a few steps lower than "don't call us, we'll call you" .

[SunSeeker]

8. You should write a letter to the editor about your experience.

At least that has a chance of being published.

[crunch60]

12. I am doing that as we speak..nt