Are Local Newspapers the way?

When the RP HQ released his economic recovery plan. Could we just run a whole page ad? Too costly? Need permission from HQ or are they planning on doing this themselves? I really think the economy is the one common thread that people will sit up and listen to.

The following web page contains a list, by state, of free publications and their circulation numbers.

http://www.afcp.org/design/general/freepapersearch.asp?all

We ran the 1/4 page Manofcommonsense.com ad in our local paper, the Bee News (we skipped the larger regional paper) and included an email address. They just came out yesterday. I think it's the first time there were any ads in the area! (That I've heard, anyway).

We also ended up running some classifieds in our local PennySavers paper. The classifieds can be very cheap - it was about $5 for 12 words, 25 cents per additional word. If you place it in 2 or 3 categories, it's still very cheap. And we ended up putting it in a few different locations, each with readership of about 15,000 or more.

At least, minimally, people who see the ads will know Ron Paul has NOT dropped out -- despite the lack of media coverage!

And let's hope they contact us or do some research!
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I ran a 1/4 page ad in our area shoppers guide this week that was distributed county wide. Our local meetup leader started gettting calls off the ad from the first day. Just do it!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_free_daily_newspapers#U...

In my rural area in Colorado our little Ron Paul Meetup group has been putting ads in the local newspapers for 3 weeks now. We also did a mass mailing to as many people in our county as we could afford (printing, envelopes, stamps). We also have taken flyers around to businesses as well as put them on any public bulletin boards. These are ways to bypass the MSM, so we should all do what we can in our areas, no matter how small.

I think local newspapers are the way to go.
My local newspaper, is the Latrobe Bulletin.

I am debating about putting in a full page ad the weekend before the PA primary.
A full page is $1644.75.
A half page is $841.50.

The paper goes to 8100 homes and the publisher said they use 2.4 as the multiplier to calculate readers. So, that would be 19,440 people.

I have already maxed out my donations to HQ, and I think this is really the way to go.

It sounds like a lot of people , including my area, have been placing small ads in local papers even classifieds which are not expensive. everyone looks in classifieds for jobs, to buy things etc. the reach is pretty big!

put a supporter's ph# or email address so they can contact someone locally.

would be great to have one website to coordinate all the small town papers. like if we have several ads running in one area/county, maybe others in that area who want to help can work on a neighboring area instead
... just to make sure all areas are covered

note that many states also have press associations, eg in Utah they used the state press assoc to place a lot of ads for a low price

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I called my town's local paper, but it turns out (of course) to be owned by a larger media group, and I can't get my calls returned. I will keep trying, but I'm too late now for Feb 5th. If my primary were later I would absolutely do it, and I will probably do it, anyway, because Ron Paul is in this one for the long haul.