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Carrie McKean's avatar

How do writers pitch you/your team?

I’m a big fan of the work you’re doing - as someone who lives in bright red West TX but has written OpEds a few times for legacy publications offering more nuanced takes on the culture here, I get how hard it is to cross the finish line w a piece that doesn’t ideologically reflect the progressive worldview. They want “diverse perspectives” until the perspective is diverse.

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Mike Lofton's avatar

Progressives say “diversity” but practice “divisionry”. BTW, I just coined that non-word. 😬

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jt's avatar

Nice!

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Ray Nelson's avatar

Love it!

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Matthew Marchant's avatar

Bari - common sense would benefit from Carrie’s perspective.

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Carrie McKean's avatar

Thanks Matthew! Kind of you to say. I feel dumb asking the “how to pitch” question - I’ve looked and looked to no avail though! I have quite a few story ideas that were almost but not quite accepted by some of the legacy outlets. It could be that they just weren’t good enough - I’m new to game and lack experience, so fair enough - but sometimes I feel like it’s bc they are just not conformative enough. Which is scary to me, bc I don’t write from a fringe perspective.

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Pbr's avatar

Carrie, isthere a place or a newsletter that you can send out once a month or here on Substack for those of us that want to understand other perspectives?

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