[CIMC-work] Current editorial policy

[Ian Bicking]

I wasn't able to find our editorial policy in the archive, but I got it 
off archive.org:



     Know about a community struggle the corporate media isn't covering 
or isn't covering honestly? Got a great idea to share with other 
activists? Want to share your photos of an event or action? Got audio 
or video that people just have to see or hear?

     This is the place to put it. Use any style you want--journalistic, 
academic, or personal for telling your story.

     Use this form to contribute NEW stories and ideas. Comments should 
go with the story being discussed. To respond to a story on the site, 
please use the add your comments link below the stories.

     After stories have been published, they can be edited, linked or 
even hidden by the collective maintaining this site, using the story 
administration page (password required).
     Generally, this feature is used only to fix mistakes such as typos 
in a web address or remove a duplicate copy of a story.
     Very rarely, someone abuses our trust, and posts a story that is 
far outside of, or in conflict with, the principles of the project and 
this website, and we may place editorial comment in it or even, in 
extreme cases, hide it.

     Examples of material that may be hidden include newswire posts that 
are racist, sexist, homophobic, or that clearly fly in the face of our 
mission to serve as a space for the exchange of news, dialogue and 
opinion that advances economic and social justice.

     Posts that serve as commercials for for-profit companies will be 
removed.

     We respect and support a diversity of opinion, but our site, as 
well as other sites in the Indymedia network, has unfortunately been 
increasingly targeted by quantities of right-wing disinformation and 
hatred-promoting messages. We would appreciate it if such persons would 
instead use, or set up their own, websites, rather then subjecting our 
readers and posters to their objectionable cant. For more information 
about our mission, see the link "About Chicago Indymedia".

     Stories contributed to this site are free for non-profit re-use 
unless those who post state otherwise.