Saturday

Some very good news yesterday. Cirlot placed a story with NBC Nightly News. Not really a debate story, but it should reflect very well on the University. Spent much of yesterday and the past three days talking with sponsors of specific programs on campus for the debate and how to best generate publicity for them. Some of the events are of no interest to the news media, some should generate international news. I am particularly excited about the science panel that takes place on September 18. That will be very interesting and controversial.

It's at least three distinguished science writers and scientists and each has a different political leaning. What they share in common is an anger that science has been marginalized by politics. It used to be where when the science community developed a consensus on a major topic, the US Government took heed. Think Russia vs the US Space Program and President John F. Kennedy making a bold proclamation that the U.S. would put a man on the moon in 10 years.

Or when the US developed the Manhattan project. Certainly energy is that big of a priority and these writers are critical because the best our politicians can imagine is more drilling and perhaps dropping the tax on gas.

Spoke with Glenn Elvington of ABC News for about 30 minutes yesterday. Busy guy. He not only is doing our debate, but the conventions and some of the other debates as well. Problem is, the networks have a shadow of the resources they did just eight years ago.

No debate thinking for at least four hours. It's Saturday. Web site is in pretty good shape. Time to generate some good content for it. The debates are still not on the national media map, yet.