RADAR has identified five key messages:
- Women are just as likely as men to commit domestic violence
- Men sustain over one-third of all domestic violence-related injuries
- Men are far less likely to report the incident
- Media coverage of the DV issue is often biased
- That bias often allows DV myths to continue and to grow
These messages will be conveyed to representatives of the media through e-mail communications, telephone calls, and letters to the editor.
So how can people get involved? Here are eight steps to success:
- Visit our website, and visit frequently: http://www.mediaradar.org/. We need to get our site listed high in the Google search engine. Every time you visit, that ups the Google rating. And when reporters do a search on "domestic violence," they are more likely to find our web site.
- Become knowledgeable about the facts of domestic violence. We have assembled the key information under the Resources section of our home page.
- Begin to track how your local media covers the DV story. Pick one local media outlet – newspaper, radio, or TV – and establish positive contacts with its reporters, editors, or producers.
- If you are tracking a major media outlet, join the national network of Media Monitors.
- Sign up to receive the RADAR E-lerts. You can do that at the RADAR home page.
- When you receive an E-lert, respond promptly. Send an e-mail or letter, or telephone the listed editor. Your message doesn’t have to be detailed or lengthy. Suggestions on how to get your letter published can be found here.
- Disseminate the male perspective on DV to the blog scene.
- When you get your letter to the editor published, or convince your local paper to run a story on male victims, let us know about your successes. We’ll list them in our Campaign Successes section!
The men's/father's rights movement has become the civil rights movement of the 21st century, and we are on the cutting edge. Now, let’s do it!
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