Subject: Re: HELPING COOP or Regarding Post #11352 From: tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff) Date: 1991-03-08, 02:33 Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks >>> >>>Every letter ABC gets from an ordinary nonaffiliated citizen is worth >>> >>>ten fan club form letters. >> >> >> >>Agreed. If I were reading ABC's mail, I'd stick all the COOP letterhead >> >>mail in a pile off by itself, and figure that some wacko club had gotten >> >>together and held a letter-writing party. > > > >Given. Agreed. > > > >So? *SO*, given that one has the choice to write one's letter to ABC either as a private citizen or as a "fan club" member, one should unswervingly choose the former option, for the sake of a bigger impact in Century City. > >I'd be willing to bet that we a) got a lot of people aware of the > >problem, and b) more letters were written because of COOP than would > >have been written otherwise. Those letters may have been less > >effective, but they still had an effect. Not that it matters, by > >the way, but there isn't/wasn't just one letterhead. COOP has been prominently mentioned in several news features about the hiatus and reprieve. The media always like to have a spokesman they can contact for quotes on something like this, and COOP provides it. Obviously some of the principals are PR savvy, which isn't surprising since PEAKS is what PR yuppies watch on their night off. :-) On the other hand, COOP's presence in this minidrama means that ABC now has to issue ritual denials of having caved in to a pressure group, instead of just trumpeting its responsiveness to The Public out there. I reassert that individual viewership and feedback is the way to go. Until COOP starts buying ad time, it won't help the show's survival prospects OR quality. In fact, if ABC gets the idea that PEAKS' real appeal is frat-boy coffee mug camp kitsch, we'll be looking at the worst third season imaginable!