[Seattle-editorial] Re: [IMC-Seattle] Fwd: [Www-newswire] PROPOSED: Play Soccer for Jesus Fucking Christ

[anarch3m]

FYI, it played out very speedily.  Before comments it seems, as Jeremy contacted the publisher...see here: from features list digest., 
walt
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Message: 5
Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 23:31:02 -0800
From: fellowtraveler at riseup.net
To: Doug Morris <being at enteract.com>
Cc: www-features at indymedia.org, www-newswire at lists.indymedia.org
Subject: Re: [www-features] PROPOSED: Play Soccer for Jesus Fucking Christ

hey all --

i changed this headline as soon as i saw it, and the person who uploaded it that
way was spoken to about it, mentioning exactly the points you bring up.  s/he
understands now why it was not cool, and won't be doing something like that
again.  while portland indymedia has used the word "fuck" in headlines at least
twice (and probably will again), this was definitely considered inappropriate,
because it would be insulting to people of faith (and others), Christian and
otherwise.

btw, not only have there been features on pdx indy about Islam, but about
Christianity, too.  some of us activists here are trying to build bridges with
faith communities, and we know this is all about respect.  while criticism of
religious institutions is fair play, headlines like this that insult peoples'
personal faith are definitely unacceptable.  you won't see it again on pdx indy.

love+solidarity,
spArk



Quoting Doug Morris <being at enteract.com>:

> joking...
> 
> This is a Portland local feature title though that just came onto the local 
> wire:
> 
> Play Soccer for Jesus Fucking Christ
> http://portland.indymedia.org/archive/features/2002/11/2002-11.html#6138
> 
> It reads funnily enough...
> 
> But, not joking...
> 
> since we are on the topic of feature policies...
> 
> are there editorial policies about offensive language?
> 
> seriously, the title needlessly offends a large a number of folks...
> 
> I note that the Portland site has written religiously open articles about 
> Islam.
> 
> Would Portland post this title to a feature:
> 
> Play Soccer for Fucking Muhammad
> 
> No.
> 
> And...
> Well, if you look at the news today:  you will see that 100 people were 
> killed in riots in Nigeria because a newspaper ran a story saying that 
> Muhammad might marry a beauty queen from the upcoming miss world contest.
> 
> Christians have done just as bad in the name of trivial issues.
> 
> In general, insults with no content are not a good news or activist 
> practice to encourage, especially of religious icons with potentially very 
> violent followers.
> 
> Spark,
> What do you think?
> To whomever put this up:
> Would you mind suggesting dropping the "Fucking" is appropriate since this 
> syndicated to the global feature wire.
> 
> What do you all think?
 
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On Fri, 22 Nov 2002 23:20:06  
 Leslie Howes wrote:
>My first impulse is to leave the fucking in. Otherwise it just gets too
>complicated. It will obviously affect the way some view the article (some may
>not read it) but I was actually surprised to read that the author of this
>e-mail would not expect to see Play Soccer for Fucking Mohammed. 


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