[New-imc] IMC-Pilipinas Editorial Policy

[Alexander Martin Remollino]

IMC-PILIPINAS EDITORIAL POLICY


The IMC-Pilipinas is an non-profit, open-publishing
center for news, analysis, features, and commentaries
pertaining to Filipino experience and participation in
the struggle against imperialist globalization,
military intervention, and wars of aggression and for
sovereignty and social justice. It shall especially
give prominence to angles either missed or
deliberately left out by mainstream media.

Anyone is free to post material that meets the
editorial criteria of IMC-Pilipinas. As much as we
value contributions, however, content might be edited
by IMC-Pilipinas.

Open Posting Guidelines:

The editorial team shall correct inaccurate posts,
i.e. posts containing incorrect information.

The editorial team shall hide posts of these types:

- Discrimination : posts using language, imagery, or
other forms of communication promoting racism,
fascism, xenophobia, elitism, sexism or any other form
of discrimination.

- Repeated : content that is reposted or text that was
originally a comment posted as a report.

- Advertising : posts with personal or product
promotions.

- Disruptive : contributions by individuals who
habitually publish above-mentioned discouraged
content, or comments unrelated to published articles.

- Copyrighted : reposts from commercial media.

- Inappropriate : posts that do not meet the
principles of unity of IMC-Pilipinas.

- Libelous : maligning a person or group.

Sections on IMC-Pilipinas

Features: The editorial team highlights and organizes
valuable content through features, which are shown on
the central column of the front page. Features group
text, links to articles and media-files about a
similar topic or event together and are made by
IMC-volunteers.

Newswire: IMC-Pilipinas adheres to the open publishing
ethos. Everybody is free to post on the newswire or
add comments to newswire articles. However,
IMC-Pilipinas volunteers take the liberty to hide
postings which are not in accordance with the
editorial criteria. Hidden postings and comments are
visible in the View all posts section. You can click
to read them. 

Comments: Everybody can add their own comments at the
end of each article. Comments are subject to the
guidelines for hiding. They can be used to: 

o	State an opinion about any given posting. 
o	Add information. 
o	Correct inaccurate or malicious information. 
o	Rectify misinformation. 

·	Calendar: Please list all announcements and upcoming
events on the Calendar. 

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