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Dateline: Friday, August 5, 2016 (Day 3181)
Location: James S. Brady Press Room, The White House


In Today's WHPR:
: 1 : August '16 PotUS Candidates in Review
: 2 : War News
: 3 : Media Transition Packet (p3)
: 4 : Pat Paulsen for President
: Music : Frankenstein - Edgar Winters (1973)

Editor's Note: Today's edition of the WHPR is my last, having enjoyed two terms working for President Yui. Your next WHPR will be headed up by your new SecMed, either Ilene Dover or Paul Proteus. I'd like to thank my staff for putting up with my crap, our readers for sticking with us, and especially our President for giving me a free hand to run my department.



August '16 PotUS Candidates in Review
_{by Ilene Dover and Paul Proteus}



Tyler4CP: 2Fast, 2Furious, 2President?
_{by Paul Proteus}

Tyler Bubblar, reactivating after a brief break following his most recent successful term in office, is running for President on a platform of steady leadership with a focus on training the leaders of tomorrow. Citing his strong experience both managing diverse cabinets and healing fractures in the community, Tyler is running on an implicit promise of returning his brand of leadership to eUS government. Through selecting a diverse and placing promising citizens into important foreign affairs and security roles, Tyler aims to cultivate a generation of new leaders, and reenergize the United States after the lethargic first months of Summer. As Tyler describes his own campaign, "this is not about heaping additional honors on myself or more medals on my profile. This is about giving others a hand up."

Tyler's newspaper, I Wanna go Fast, has four campaign articles you should read.



ResouIa for Dictator of America - Mayhem in the Shadows!
_{by Ilene Dover}

ResouIa (did you know that the L is actually a capital I?) has decided to step forward and claim credit for his work this month. That is, the guy's been everywhere and bought the T-shirt to prove it. Resoula is running chiefly on a domestic platform and is promising, in his own words, "a month of mayhem" with something on offer for everyone - whatever your tastes in truck stop food or literature. Along for the ride is a kick-ass cabinet of champions - a literal cabinet of rock stars (even if that isn't the correct collective noun). How could anyone argue with such a group of players endorsing him? Voting for Resoula shows your support for a solid Month of Mayhem, where Americans take over.

Resoula's newspaper, Rareonce, has five campaign articles you should read.



War News



"It has been decided that we will turn the war into a Training War.
The Training War will revolve around Wales, West Midlands, and North West of England, while the rest of the USA controlled regions will be regained by the UK."


Secretary of Media's Transition Packet (part 3)
_{by SecMed George Armstrong Custer}

Well, here we are.. my last WHPR as Secretary of Media of Yui's second term, and part 3 of my Media Dept transition packet. Neither Ilene Dover or Paul Proteus need this, but it may be of some value to new writers and future SecMeds. 

In part 1 we covered a general overview of the job. Here's a highlight:
"As with any Cabinet position, the job is what you make of it. I chose to do more. You may choose to do less. Your President may have specific ideas of what is to be done, and how the job is to be done. Ultimately, you will be "the official voice of The office of the President and the White House," and all eyes are upon you." 

In part 2 we covered form and format. A snippet from that piece:
"The main element of this format are the segments. You can cover any number of stories within an edition-- more stories, shorter segments; less news, go for a long segment.
A segment is not a full page article-- it's a segment. Optimally, a segment is three or four paragraphs, each of those being two to four sentences. Introduce the topic and get all the pertinent facts in right away, then fill out the story mid-segment, and finish with a "hammer" or "hard closer" that makes an impact."

So let's wrap up a couple loose ends...

Images: in keeping with consistent formatting, until this past week when Photobucket got wise to AdBlockPlus and took a shit on me, I've been able to resize all images to 675px wide. Top to bottom, all images the same width, looks nice and clean. I've been less fussy about that this past week (sorry, not sorry).. Point is.. consistency.

The other big deal about images, and it's way more important than resizing, is that you should never hotlink images. Here's why:
Back in my early days, when I ran the eUSArmy Times, I hotlinked a cool warfare image right at the top. The guy who owned the image had some sort of tracker running, and he swapped the image for a particularly nasty porn pic using the same URL. Of course, this got noticed and reported to Admin, who then pulled the edition, and suspended both me and the paper for a few days.
So the moral of the story is.. don't hotlink. Download, upload, use TinyPic or Lightshot.. whatever floats your boat, but own and control any images you use.



Here's another common problem you don't have to have-- Imgur images do not display in eRep using the URL just as it comes to you. You see it fine because it's in your cache, but your readers will get the little "bad image link" icon. Here's how to fix Imgur image links: simply take the "i." part off the front end of the URL. Don't do that, and your whole article looks stupid because you didn't fix your Imgur image links. Or don't use Imgur in the first place.

post-publication edit:
Totally forgot about YouTube links.. eRep doesn't handle the "https" link you probably from YouTube, probably from being signed into an account there. Like the above mentioned Imgur links, you'll be able to connect through that https link because (1) it's in your cache &/or (2) you're logged into that YouTube account, but it won't work for your readers. When you do post a YouTube link, like for your "mood music," remove the S and make it an http link.

Post-Publication: I already talked about getting your Shout done right, and posting it as your own first Comment before some jackwad comes and posts "first!"
But then.. after hitting that Publish button, go back and read your work.. go over every line and look for misspells and grammar, etc., that may have escaped you during your whole writing and assembly process. Look at the formatting of spacing.. spaces before and after images, so it's not crammed together, may translate differently once you actually go live... maybe an image link is broken, maybe paragraphs stacked on top of each other where you had intended a blank line space. Fine tooth comb the entire piece, it'll make all the difference between clean and crap.

Content: Without going into my full rant about the WHPR being the face and voice of the Office of the President and the White House, and as such needs to be fully professional and... well, I just won't do the rant thing. Just treat the newspaper, the President and your readers with respect.

There are things that do not fly in the official government newspaper.
One is blatant campaigning for your President's re-election.. boy, did I get in trouble for that a few years back. Another is promoting an unauthorized Coup of another country.. probably should've checked first before going with that one.


If some hot topic or story sounds even a little bit secret, or not quite ready for public consumption, then by all means do check with the President or SecState or NSC Chairman first. While we do want to be first to break a big international story, we don't want to piss off an adversary or tip off an enemy ahead of a military or diplomatic action. A SecMed has direct and unfettered access to all the top people-- use it or lose it.

And, last but first.. remember who you work for-- the President. If your President is doing good things, make him look great in this newspaper. If your President is fouling up, ignore it and find something else to write about. Do not criticize your President or his programs and policies in this, his newspaper. 

Being Secretary of Media is an honor, one with great responsibilities.. which, for the most part, I have taken very seriously. For me, this is as close to real professional journalism as I'll ever get. I can write all the crap I want in my own paper, and starting next week I will, but here.. as the face and voice of my President and the White House, I pull together all the professionalism and decorum I can muster. I trust my successor to continue to do the same, to deliver a quality product-- on time, every time, without fail.

Thank you all, again, very much. Goodnight, and God bless.



Pat Paulsen for President

With the elections just around the corner it's time to bring back a candidate who embraces the challenges of this modern world. This is from the Smothers Brothers 20th Reunion Show from 1988. Pat again leads the way in American politics.




Shout this a lot:

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