Hitching a Ride on Current Events

you can get involved requires you to analyze what you have and quickly identify what you can bring to the table that the media needs. Obviously you do not want to be scene as an ambulance chaser. But there are ways to get out in front of the news, regardless of what happens.

If you think about what media does in response to an event, they go through several stages of activity. Break these stages down and identify specifically what these activities involve.

On any event of note the media needs:

– relevant facts and explanation to provide insights into what rajgir this event means to the watching public

– expert commentary with an ability to assess and relate history and the past to the present and the future