[Seattle-editorial] Re: [Seasc] fyi and disccuss

[Sheri Herndon]

At 10:56 AM -0800 11/28/02,  anarch3m wrote:
>Is there an adventitious response to another aspect of anti-wto 
>etcetc = terrorism?  Compare the importance of this issue to the 
>current debate on "american humor' and its place in features? 
>De-Facto Bias?

a quick scan of this link will provide helpful context: 
http://indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=219281&group=webcast

xo

>walt
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>Message: 6
>Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 18:09:28 -0800
>From: workhorse <workhorse at riseup.net>
>To: www-features at indymedia.org
>Subject: [www-features] PROPOSED: USA violence - Posting On Indymedia
>Newswire Leads To Capture Of Police Murder Suspect
>
>Based on an hour-long collaborative process on irc with about 12-15 people. If
>only every feature could be prepared that way...
>
>Because it was done this way and the wording and arrangement are very
>intentional, I would suggest posting all three paragraphs on the front page
>(rather than the usually-preferable system of just posting the intro).
>
>
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>
>USA: VIOLENCE
>
>Posting On Indymedia Newswire Leads To Capture Of Police Murder Suspect
>
>In a situation that is still unfolding, Andrew Hampton McCrae has
><a
>href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,71479,00.html"
>target="new">reportedly</a> been arrested in New Hampshire for the 
>murder of Red
>Bluff, California, police officer David Mobilio. Police were led to 
>McCrae after
>someone used that name to publish an <a
>href="http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2002/11/1545326.php">article</a> to the San
>Francisco IMC newswire claiming responsibility for the murder. The
>"<a
>href="http://sf.indymedia.org/process/openpub.php">open publishing</a>"
>Indymedia newswires allow for anonymous contributions, so the identity of the
>author cannot be confirmed. The author explained that the murder was 
>in protest
>of police brutality and corporate impugnity. While some believe
>the article is a
><a
>href="http://portland.indymedia.org:8081/front.php3?article_id=35699&group=webcast
>">set-up</a>, a local newspaper in Concord, NH, <a
>href="http://www.cmonitor.com/stories/front2002/nhreporter_9.shtml"
>target="new">reports</a> that McRae offered the same explanation 
>shortly before
>his arrest.
><p>
>There is a <a
>href="http://indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=219277&group=webcast">long
>tradition</a> of criminals using mass media to get a message out. But the fact
>that this was such a brutal murder, and that the confession depicts 
>the crime as
>anti-corporate, mixed with the anti-corporate stance of Indymedia and its
>emphasis on empowering people to become the media raises concerns 
>that the line
>will be blurred in this case. This only serves to distract from
>corporate
>media's <a
>href="http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2002/11/1545491_comment.php#1545528">complicity</a>
>in murders and violence committed for the benefit of corporations.
>
><p>
><a href="http://www.redbluffdailynews.com/display/inn_obits/obit1.txt"
>target="new">David Mobilio</a> was shot once in the head on November 
>19 while he
>was refueling his police cruiser. Mobilio, 31, was remembered today by his
>family and thousands of mourners in the small California town. He 
>was the first
>Red Bluff police officer killed in the line of duty.
>
>
>Discuss this feature
>http://indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=219281&group=webcast
>
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