Editorial Published in today’s Daily Herald

My first editorial was published last week in the Springville Herald and it ran today in the Daily Herald. Here’s the link if you’re interested.

Chapter Director Training in New Orleans

I just got back from a great trip to New Orleans sponsored and paid for by the PTC. They are so well funded and organized! Here I am in the French Quarter. Our hotel was just beautiful and quaint!

It was fantastic training and so fun as well. Here are some new friends I met…

They are the new chapter directors I met in New Orleans. We all learned so much from Gavin, the national Grassroots Director. Here’s me with Gavin, and the PR Specialist, Kelly.

And here’s a final gathering of the whole group at the training before we headed back to the airport. The entire trip including travel time was less than 48 hours!

We’ll all reconvene in February 2009 for the annual conference in CA. Until then we’ll be busy building our local chapter and educating parents on media!

Garbage In-Garbage Out

Here’s an editorial that I’m submitting to local papers. I’ll post a link if any publish it.

Garbage In, Garbage Out

In the 1970s a popular poem taught us that children “learn what they live,” and in recent years, we’ve seen the truth of that maxim played out in schools and playgrounds across the country. An entire genre of music, popularized and pushed into the mainstream by greedy corporations, has taught a generation of children that the road to success is paved with drugs, violence and sex.

The Parents Television Council, in cooperation with Reverend Delman Coates’ Enough is Enough Campaign for Corporate Responsibility in Entertainment recently released an analysis of adult content appearing on Rap City and 106 & Park on BET and MTV’s Sucker Free on MTV — music video programs popular with young audiences — and found that offensive/adult content appeared at an alarming rate: one instance every 38 seconds.