well, fpconsulting...lift your shoe and check the soles...I think you may have just stepped in something messy!

I will not do it again, I will tell everyone to not do it again,
NO MEDIA
ever again... they lie, tell you lies, discredit you, manipulate the truth, edit to make story appealing by editing comments together, do not follow-up, want too much info up front, have no regards to OPSEC, will never take things at face value, always trying to dig that extra info from you.. list can go on and on and on..

NO MEDIA..No interviews, no giving them any info, no helping them at all, no collaboration, no collusion, no trusting,
NO COMMENT!

PS, HOPE I AM NOT BEING TO SUBTLE HERE

I am seeing an upswing in the media being focused on preparedness. I have personally been interviewed by the local news paper and TV news stations. Fortunately nether have turned the story in a bad direction.

I have seen some good come out of this, meaning new people getting involved in preparedness and communities educating people.

I would like to know your thoughts on the subject.

Glad you had a good experience with it. What avenue did you take in your interview. Disaster preparedness / cataclysm etc. It would be interesting to know since you said they did not turn your story in a bad direction. If people here can learn from what you did right then perhaps when we get approached we have something positive to go by. My guess is that you didn't bite if they did bait you with a doomsday question.

Although your experience may have been positive, this is the exception and not the rule. Do you have any links to your stories?
As for my personal experience, if I tried to do an interview, the story never made it to light because it was too boring. The media is looking for rambo nut case types...or at least someone they can make to look like that. They are looking for ratings and preppers that are not going to give the wow factor, simply don't make the cut.

Again, I would love to see these positive stories that you were involved in...links would be appreciated.

I have been asked a few times now in regards to media and I have no interest in working with them in this regards at all, I have done interviews on other things or subjects in my life over the years and while none of them were "bad" they always seemed to be very creative in how they "edited things"

DH has taken media training though his work and even with his help at the time, I was never happy with the end result, now I just say NO!

Re:Media on prep.
If you talk to people privately they mostly agree something is about to happen.talking to media is useless they do not want to see it.Just watch the "doom. prep."show on TV and you have to lough at some of the preppers. For the media it is only show.
henry

I am seeing an upswing in the media being focused on preparedness. I have personally been interviewed by the local news paper and TV news stations. Fortunately nether have turned the story in a bad direction.

I have seen some good come out of this, meaning new people getting involved in preparedness and communities educating people.

I would like to know your thoughts on the subject.

I agree that there is more focus on preparedness and some stores are starting to sell products along the "prepping" line but I think it has more to do with someone making money then believing in being prepared. I would love to read your interviews in the paper.

When I found out about the News station wanting to do a story I called the reporter directly. I made it very clear what I would talk about or show and what I would not. This is the second time I have been approached to do a story for TV the first was like you said they wanted to show doom and gloom. I did not do that story.

My suggestions, Make it very clear as to what you will talk about or show, ask lots of questions before they come to meet you, and Last if you are not comfortable with what they want to talk about walk away.

Link to TV story:
http://www.ktbs.com/news/Spotlight-3-End-of-Days-Craze/-/144844/15471558/-/wboxmtz/-/index.html

News paper story:
I am working on getting the paper story, but it is a small paper with no online stories. The article is mostly about my company and letting the town I live in know about what we do and why we started a preparedness company.

Thanks for the link. They did a really good job with the interview. 🙂

Contrary to common opinion the press can give unbiased coverage of this issue.

Very true that is why I talk to each reporter to find out what direction the story is going to be displayed.

I have had considerable experience with the press over the years , not with prepping though. It has been my experience that If they really want the interview you can have them do it on your terms. I look upon the press as a tool to get your point of view across. They can be quite useful.

Yes they can....