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CaptainTruth

(8,240 posts)
18. I get tired of saying it, but once again it's messaging.
Mon Nov 1, 2021, 10:55 AM
Nov 2021

I've also noted a disturbing lack of it from Democratic leaders. We want the press to write about the bills? We hold press conferences where we highlight the features. Not just one, a series. Break it down into 3-4-5 whatever different aspects & do a series of press conferences describing the beneficial features of each aspect, focus on how they're going to help the American people, help jobs, help the economy, help America as a whole. Give the press something to write about! We know what they're like (too easily distracted by small shiny objects) so we have to hand them the story on a silver platter, over & over again.

"Messaging" is marketing, get out there & tell people about your product. If you want people to buy your product you have to promote it, you have to SELL it.

I can only hope there will be a messaging barrage from Dems once the bills are done & signed, because right now from what I see we are woefully losing the messaging war to the Right & if we don't change that we should prepare to lose a lot in 2022.

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I guess it's sans serif now... MiHale Nov 2021 #1
Their corporate masters is dictating what to over in the news . .. Lovie777 Nov 2021 #2
it's easy because democrats always ignore 1500 coordinated republican radio stations. at $1000/hr certainot Nov 2021 #20
Yeah, it's hard to know when the media rarely reports... Buckeye_Democrat Nov 2021 #3
Of course it's all up to the Democrats. Write the bill, the votes, and do the journalist's job Walleye Nov 2021 #4
Many people's attention must have been caught by something important Hortensis Nov 2021 #5
What's at the heart of the "government doesn't work" game? The biggest lie. jaxexpat Nov 2021 #12
Du is my main source of news and I can't say what's in the infrastructure bills. Kaleva Nov 2021 #6
About 25% of the adult population watches the news Kaleva Nov 2021 #7
Yes but MSM headlines Elessar Zappa Nov 2021 #16
Exactly. Those who care and want to know... reACTIONary Nov 2021 #17
That's the narrative, gab13by13 Nov 2021 #8
Right but they could tell you every detail on the Rust shooting Tribetime Nov 2021 #9
Exactly! Or the Gabby Pedito case. The media is great at reporting details of LymphocyteLover Nov 2021 #11
So true. Domestic spending takes away from focus on the sacred military, so they try to ignore. Alexander Of Assyria Nov 2021 #10
Democrats have done a very poor job of selling the bill. I have known little about it doc03 Nov 2021 #13
I get tired of saying it, but once again it's messaging. CaptainTruth Nov 2021 #18
The lack of powerful, pointed, memorable messaging remains a mystery to me; our greatest weakness. JudyM Nov 2021 #21
hear, hear Grasswire2 Nov 2021 #24
Donny Deutch on MJ said this 2 months ago. doc03 Nov 2021 #25
Reporters don't want to keep up with the ever-changing content IronLionZion Nov 2021 #14
This makes me so angry mcar Nov 2021 #15
Anyone asks you, ask them if they know what's in the Pentagon appropriations bill for 2022. Aristus Nov 2021 #19
I doubt that the general public and the Congress members knew then and now what was in the Trump.... usaf-vet Nov 2021 #22
Of course we have no idea, but there are dozens of places to... TreasonousBastard Nov 2021 #23
+1 betsuni Nov 2021 #27
Touch! Dark n Stormy Knight Nov 2021 #26
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