Re: Citizen Radio's new moniker
Subject: Re: Citizen Radio's new moniker
From: Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com>
Date: 4/8/10, 03:18
To: jamie kilstein <jamiekilstein@gmail.com>

I'm going to pitch the piece to a couple of other pubs this week when I get a moment and then if I don't hear anything I'll go ahead and do my standard T/S HuffPo/DKos triple play; that'll get you more exposure among the people most likely to follow up on and appreciate your work than that shitty ass The Onion local features section (which was cut largely due to the 

Lemme think about how to best approach all of this. Overall, you guys have tons of potential in terms of how much bigger you can get, and obviously no one ever does everything they can to promote themselves, but your quality-to-marketing ratio is either really high or really low (whichever one means that you're not getting nearly as much of an audience as you should, I don't know math lol). 

I've only heard one or two episodes of Citizen Radio, but it's really a fantastic program, and I'm not just saying that to be nice; you guys really do have great presentation, obviously cover subjects of importance and do so in a way that's palatable to even people who don't necessarily follow policy and politics while still going deep enough to be informative to folks who are already wonkish. That's a hard thing to do, particularly in a radio format. Frankly, I think you're going to have more success in doing stuff along these lines than in stand-up, and you've been pretty successful in stand-up thus far.

I'll think about all of this and get back to you on how best to promote Citizen Radio. I had actually been thinking perhaps that there could be a way of interfacing Citizen Radio and Project PM in order to heavily promote Citizen Radio; similarly, trying to determine how to integrate/connect with organizations, as we've got several of them interested so far in being a part of the project.

Anyway, would like to promote you guys' show and Allison's writing as of course one of our goals is to advance the work of people like you and colonize mainstream audiences for the greater glory of the reasonable sector of the blogosphere.


On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 2:53 AM, jamie kilstein <jamiekilstein@gmail.com> wrote:
Hey man,

If you think it won't get in anywhere bigger then I say go for it.

ALLTHOUGH we just taped this weeks episode and are thinking of
starting a massive pr/twitter campaign to get Obama on the show. We
figure if he goes on fox news he should answer to his progressive base
as well. We just want to get so many people tweeting them to do the
show that he has to. Should we do something about that?

Also I have my solo show April 28th in NYC. Any ideas to promote?
You're great man thanks!

On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 4:49 PM, Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com> wrote:
> Good move on your part; such people are obsolete in our new era. Let me know
> if I can be of any assistance with anything at all. I'll try to have that
> piece on you guys (tweaked and updated) published somewhere soon. How would
> you feel about it running on Huffington Post, True/Slant, and Daily Kos? I
> could also write another one for something else later. Let me know what you
> think.
> On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 2:39 AM, jamie kilstein <jamiekilstein@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> thanks man! I fired my managers and we are really ready to push this
>> whole underground movement.
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 4:35 PM, Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Love it. I'm pretty serious about helping to encourage people to think
>> > about
>> > the alternative means of collaboration and even pseudo-governance that
>> > are
>> > now available to folks for the first time in history. Blogs constitute
>> > an
>> > alternative to the fourth estate; one down, three to go.
>
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