Suggestion re media coverage (fwd)

[David Robertson]

Qhata mayka ukuk san?

Na tEmtEm alaxti mayka tIki nanIch ukuk:  I think you may like seeing
this.  Nixwa mayka mash nayka tEnEs-wawa, pus ma tIki munk c'Em khapa
"newspaper" tayi tIlIXEm -- Go ahead and send me a note, if you are
interested in writing to newspaper editors.  I'll pass it on to the person
who wrote the following......Dave

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>  Also, I wonder if you could tell the guy or others on [CHINOOK] that
>letters to the editor on those topics are very important. A letter about
>the book would be very good, and a letter telling editors the value of
>informed reporting on tribal culture would increase the chance that they
>would let more informed reporting into the newspaper. It's only chance
>because it was a struggle to get that [kind of] story in the paper,
>particularly because most newsroom managers are so ignorant of tribal
>issues that they don't know when an informed report comes along. I can send
>the address. But I am quietly trying to get a letter campaign going here.

[Note from Dave:  I've edited the above very slightly for brevity's sake,
and with the intention of not changing its meaning.]