Contact your local newspapers, local tv stations, major news networks, and major newspapers
A huge thank you to Jennifer Robin for putting together this invaluable list of newspaper contacts for nearly every state in the US: jenniferrobin.gallery/news-media-contact/
Below is an op-ed sent in by a fellow wild horse advocate and one written for us by Linda Lee Wallace (the newest member of our team) that you can use as a template or copy and paste as your own. Op-eds are key to helping make the public aware of the plight of our wild horses and burros. Anyone can submit an op-ed to their local paper(s) and it is very easy to do. If you need help contact me at heather@saveourwildhorses.net
Below is an op-ed sent in by a fellow wild horse advocate and one written for us by Linda Lee Wallace (the newest member of our team) that you can use as a template or copy and paste as your own. Op-eds are key to helping make the public aware of the plight of our wild horses and burros. Anyone can submit an op-ed to their local paper(s) and it is very easy to do. If you need help contact me at heather@saveourwildhorses.net
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Refuting the Big Lie – Wild Horses Are Not Overpopulated
The truth is, American wild horse and burro numbers are precariously low, at the level when the 1971 Wild and Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act was passed by Congress to save them from extinction and preserve them as "living symbols of the West." Wild equids now roam only half the original land set aside for them in 1971. After 20,193 horses and burros were inhumanely rounded up via helicopters in 2022, there are now just 62,191 remaining on nearly 27 million acres. BLM's goal is 26,785 animals. Compare this to 1.5 million private livestock grazing on public lands. Recent wild horse roundups were increased exponentially due to "unprecedented drought conditions," yet the BLM has not issued the same emergency reduction for livestock. The truth: Wild horses are being scapegoated for damage livestock are causing on western rangelands. Inside Climate News July 2022, “The primary cause of desertification in the arid lands of the West...has been livestock grazing and continues to be so,” said J. Boone Kauffman, professor of Fisheries, Wildlife and Conservation at Oregon State University. Note: Less than 2% of America's beef consumption originates from cattle grazing on public lands. |
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I have listed the information for national big news channels and national newspapers below. After mailing your postcard, please consider taking an hour or two to follow-up with a phone call, a note on Facebook and Twitter, or an email. The more contacts we make the more of a difference we can make!
CNN: One CNN Center, Atlanta, GA 30303
Follow up with a phone call to their news tip line: 404-827-1500
Follow up email to: comments@cnn.com
Follow up at: cnn.com/feedback
Follow on Facebook & Twitter @CNN
CNN Headline News / Morning Express with Robin Mead:
1 CNN Center, NW 7th Floor, South Tower, Atlanta, GA 30303-2762
Follow up on Facebook @HLN and at Twitter @HLNPR
MSNBC: 30 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, NY 10112
Follow up phone call: 212-664-6605
Follow up email: msnbctvinfo@nbcuni.com
Follow up Facebook and Twitter @msnbc
Email Rachel Maddow at: Rachel@msnbc.com
NBC News: 30 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, NY 10112
Follow up phone call to: 212-413-6142
Follow up email to: NBCNewsMediaRelations@nbcuni.com
Follow up on Facebook at @today and on Twitter at @TODAYshow
ABC News: 47 West 66th St, New York, NY 10023
Follow up at https://abcnews.go.com/contact by emailing Good Morning America, World News Tonight with David Muir, 20/20, and Nightline using their easy email form
Follow up phone call to: 212-456-2828
Follow up email to: news.tips@abc.com
Follow up on Facebook at @ABCnews and Twitter @ABC
CBS News: 51 W 52nd St, New York, NY 10119
Follow up Contact Form: https://www.viacomcbs.com/contact-us
Follow up on Facebook and Twitter @CBS
CBS Evening News: 524 W 57th St, New York, NY 10119
Follow up email: evening@cbsnews.com and weekend@cbsnews.com
Follow up phone call: 212-975-3247
The NY Times: 620 8th Ave, New York, NY 10018
Follow up contact email: https://store.nytimes.com/pages/contact-us
Follow up email: tips@nytimes.com
For those of you who can write an op-ed: letters@nytimes.com (150-175 words)
USA Today: 7950 Jones Branch Dr, McLean, VA 22108
Follow up contact form: https://marketing.usatoday.com/contact-us/
Follow up email to the Editor in Chief: EIC@usatoday.com
and Senior News Manager Cara Richardson: cmrichards@usatoday.com
The Washington Post: 1301 K St NW, Washington DC 20071
Follow up Letter to the Editor: letters@washpost.com (fewer than 200 words)
Follow up phone call: 202-334-6000
Messages:
When sending emails, postcards, or letters to newspapers and news stations, use your own wording and/or work from the items below:
I have listed the information for national big news channels and national newspapers below. After mailing your postcard, please consider taking an hour or two to follow-up with a phone call, a note on Facebook and Twitter, or an email. The more contacts we make the more of a difference we can make!
CNN: One CNN Center, Atlanta, GA 30303
Follow up with a phone call to their news tip line: 404-827-1500
Follow up email to: comments@cnn.com
Follow up at: cnn.com/feedback
Follow on Facebook & Twitter @CNN
CNN Headline News / Morning Express with Robin Mead:
1 CNN Center, NW 7th Floor, South Tower, Atlanta, GA 30303-2762
Follow up on Facebook @HLN and at Twitter @HLNPR
MSNBC: 30 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, NY 10112
Follow up phone call: 212-664-6605
Follow up email: msnbctvinfo@nbcuni.com
Follow up Facebook and Twitter @msnbc
Email Rachel Maddow at: Rachel@msnbc.com
NBC News: 30 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, NY 10112
Follow up phone call to: 212-413-6142
Follow up email to: NBCNewsMediaRelations@nbcuni.com
Follow up on Facebook at @today and on Twitter at @TODAYshow
ABC News: 47 West 66th St, New York, NY 10023
Follow up at https://abcnews.go.com/contact by emailing Good Morning America, World News Tonight with David Muir, 20/20, and Nightline using their easy email form
Follow up phone call to: 212-456-2828
Follow up email to: news.tips@abc.com
Follow up on Facebook at @ABCnews and Twitter @ABC
CBS News: 51 W 52nd St, New York, NY 10119
Follow up Contact Form: https://www.viacomcbs.com/contact-us
Follow up on Facebook and Twitter @CBS
CBS Evening News: 524 W 57th St, New York, NY 10119
Follow up email: evening@cbsnews.com and weekend@cbsnews.com
Follow up phone call: 212-975-3247
The NY Times: 620 8th Ave, New York, NY 10018
Follow up contact email: https://store.nytimes.com/pages/contact-us
Follow up email: tips@nytimes.com
For those of you who can write an op-ed: letters@nytimes.com (150-175 words)
USA Today: 7950 Jones Branch Dr, McLean, VA 22108
Follow up contact form: https://marketing.usatoday.com/contact-us/
Follow up email to the Editor in Chief: EIC@usatoday.com
and Senior News Manager Cara Richardson: cmrichards@usatoday.com
The Washington Post: 1301 K St NW, Washington DC 20071
Follow up Letter to the Editor: letters@washpost.com (fewer than 200 words)
Follow up phone call: 202-334-6000
Messages:
When sending emails, postcards, or letters to newspapers and news stations, use your own wording and/or work from the items below:
- How cruel the wild horse roundups are: talk about how the helicopters chase the horses in high temperatures, how one helicopter pilot ran a mare while she gave birth, how a foal lost its newborn hooves after being run so soon after birth, how they sometimes chase the horses for 2 hours or more. Talk about the cruelness of separating horse family bands forever.
- How the horses are treated during and after the roundups: talk about how horses are injured while being forced into small pens with each other, about the mare who broke her neck trying to escape, the many horses who have broken legs while trying to escape. Talk about how the horses have lost their freedom and families, how they go from living free to living in small long-term holding pens with no shelter. Talk about how the foals are separated from their mothers.
- How the Bureau of Land Management is abusing taxpayer funds: talk about the Path Forward Plan and how it is a path to extinction for our wild horses. Talk about how the BLM rounds up the horses, gelds the stallions and treats the mares with birth control, then releases them as a much smaller herd with no genetic viability or way to reproduce. Talk about how the BLM pays helicopter pilots (who are often cattle ranchers) hundreds of dollars per horse for each wild horse they chase into traps. Tell the newspapers there is a better way: require the BLM to create and abide by Herd Management Area Plans, a requirement of the Wild and Free-Roaming Horses & Burros Act of 1971.
- How the Bureau of Land Management caters to the cattle industry by shutting off water resources to wild horses and burros to save it for cattle: talk about the BLM participating in and allowing cattle ranchers to turn off or divert water from the wild horse managed areas, about how they close gates stopping the wild horses from reaching water sources. Talk about how the BLM removes the wild horses claiming there isn't enough food for the horses, yet they then allow cattle ranchers to move their cattle on to those same lands. Talk about how the cattle eat and drink 3 times more food and water than horses do, how land and ecosystems are so damaged by cattle that it can take years and years to recover. Talk about how the wild horses actually help to reseed the lands and how the wild horses live with wildlife.
- The Oil, Mining, and Cattle industries: talk about how the BLM only rounds up our wild horses to make room for oil, mining, and cattle. Talk about how much damage those 3 industries do, often irreparable, to our public lands and resources. Talk about how wild horses should be protected, how the horses could be used as tourism draws for states, and how it is important to care for our wild horses, wildlife, and public lands. Talk about how you would rather see wildlife and wild horses grazing our public lands, and you don't want to see the pollution and ugliness of oil and mining operations. Talk about how you want to see our American public lands be protected and cared for before it's too late.