targeting people who write letters to the editor
Subject: targeting people who write letters to the editor
From: Jonathan Farley <lattice.theory@gmail.com>
Date: 4/27/10, 18:09
To: Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com>

Actually going after individuals who write letters to the editor will be more effective than going after major pundits who have perfectly comfortable lives whether people love them or hate them.  It sends a message to all right-wingers to watch out, and ultimately makes the right-wing pundits feel they have to tone down their language.

Regards,
Jonathan

On 27 April 2010 22:32, Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com> wrote:
Great, thanks. As for the rest, we'll be in a position to employ a number of strategies to improve the media once we launch, although I'm not interested in going after individual citizens who write letters to newspapers as we've already got our hands full in bringing attention to the deficits of the people who actually write for those papers. Also, we're not explicitly anti-conservative, although religious /cultural/social conservatives are barred from joining for a number of reasons; some of the people we'll be going after, like Thomas Friedman and Richard Cohen, are being targeted due to their incompetence, not ideology. But because our aim is to provide a better media in general, we'll naturally be targeting conservative pundits and bloggers to a far greater extent than left-moderates like Friedman.

I'll have more information soon. Though we won't be launching till August, we have a lot of decisions to make and preparations to which to attend in the meantime.