Media and media-related organizations

Benzie Area Media & Letters to Editor Info

It's important to track the performance of those who represent us in Lansing and Washington, D.C. Please pay attention to their issue positions and votes. You can respond by contacting them and by writing to our local papers. When you do write, you're invited to share your letters with by Bob McQuilkin (352-7786; rmcquilkin@charter.net) and Ron Dykstra (ronmarladyk@wildblue.net), so they can track our efforts.

Traverse City Record Eagle: (letters@record-eagle.com) 200-word limit. Include name, address, phone number, email address. Or write Record-Eagle, Letters to the Editor, Box 632, Traverse City, MI 49685-0632.

Record Patriot:: (recpat@pioneergroup.net). 500 words or less. Include name, address, phone number. Limited to one per person in 30 days. Or write to the Record Patriot Editor, 417 Main St., Frankfort, MI 49635.

Northern Express: (info@northernexpress.com) 300-word limit; one per person every two months. Include name, phone number. Do not FAX. Or mail to Northern Express Editor, P.O. Box 209, Traverse City, MI 49685.

Manistee News Advocate: dbarber@pioneergroup.com. Grand Traverse Insider: news@grandtraverseinsider.com. Ludington Daily News: sbegnoche@Ludingtondailynews.com.

Elberta Alert A free community paper available at local businesses and distributed to residents. News, information, entertainment, and a forum for all community voices. Submit letters to the editor, rants, articles, images, cartoons, suggestions, stories, hearsay, doggerel, and God bless you, paid advertisements, to elberta.alert@gmail.com, or to PO Box 357, Elberta, Michigan 49628. Editors reserve the right to edit submissions for length. Don't submit originals; submissions not returned. Call 231-399-0098 with advertising inquiries. On the web at http://www.elberta-alert.org; http://elbertaalert.wordpress.com/ and http://www.facebook.com/TheElbertaAlert

National Media

Air America Radio

AlterNet is an award-winning news magazine and online community that creates original journalism and amplifies the best of hundreds of other independent media sources. AlterNet’s aim is to inspire action and advocacy on the environment, human rights and civil liberties, social justice, media, health care issues, and more.

Crooks and Liars

Democracy Now! is a national, daily, independent, news program that pioneered the largest public media collaboration in the U.S. It is broadcast on Pacifica, NPR, community and college radio stations; on public access, PBS, satellite television (DISH network): Free Speech TV ch. 9415 and Link TV ch. 9410; DIRECTV: Free Speech TV ch. 348 and Link TV ch. 375); and on the internet. Its podcast is one of the most popular on the web.

Thom Hartmann Top-rated progressive radio show

C-Span covers Capitol Hill, the White House, and national politics

The Daily Show with Jon Stewart (for a smile when you need it!)

The Huffington Post "The Internet newspaper: news blogs video community."

Truthout.org Truthout is a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing daily independent news and commentary; it's Internet-based and reader supported; no advertising or coporate sponsorship.

Media Monitoring Organizations

Free Press is a national, nonpartisan, nonprofit organization working on media reform through education, organizing, and advocacy that promotes diverse and independent media ownership, strong public media, quality journalism and universal access to communications. Group was launched in 2002 by media scholar Robert W. McChesney and Josh Silver, its president and CEO. It's the largest U. S. media reform organization with nearly half-a-million activists and members.

mediamatters.org Media Matters for America is a web-based, nonprofit progressive research and information center dedicated to comprehensively monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the U.S. media.