Letters to the Editor
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Congratulating them for appearing on Montel? C'mon!
You understand, don't you, that their appearance on Montel will be sandwiched between a woman with her face built upside-down and a guy who can fart the National Anthem?
It wouldn't matter if TEAR appeared on the comparatively upscale Oprah, because they'd be noticed less than the boxes of genuine Tiffany chocolates hidden under the audience's seats.
The talk-show hosts - all of them - are circus acts. This would do less for their cause than distributing booklets to junior high and high schools and having trained counselors from the organization talking about the issue. It isn't glamorous. It isn't show-bizzy. But it would get far more information out to the people who need it.
Now, of course, all educators are frauds who don't give a damn about their students, any more than Geraldo cares about the Klansmen he regularly interviews. Which is why the use of outside agencies - such as the rape counselors who are already active in almost every state of the union (sorry, Tennesee) - people who are actually confronting the problem on a daily basis - would be the people to contact the students.
If TEAR distributed their flyers and discussion guides on their web site as PDF Acrobat documents, they could be downloaded by anyone in the nation and Xeroxed at the school for the cost of paper and toner. That's where public support would come in; collecting enough money from door-to-door contributions to buy a ream or two of paper for their local schools for producing these flyers. God knows the schools don't have enough paper for daily work, let alone a frivolous use like flyers to help their female students with rape.