[Seattle-editorial] A few more thoughts for editorial

[anarch3m]

Then maybe three, selected by posters, with the impossibility of spaming all three.

Pure local would be local events coverage,and 'event  announcements' could be directed to that wire choice.

THEN we can fight out the terms of some reserved space?  Smaller volume and screened by presspass? etcetcetc?
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DATE: Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:22:23
From: BFGalbraith <bfgalbraith at yahoo.com>
To: seattle-editorial at lists.indymedia.org
Cc: 

>For once :) I agree with you completely Walt, (and by
>the way, thanks Mr. List administrator for finally
>getting me on this list last week.)
>
>
>> Kellan is  leaning to 3 categories.  I will list
>> them to show my understanding of content and
>> philosophy.
>> 
>> Local
>> Local with relevance to the maxim "think globally,
>> act                                  locally " 
>> Global
>> I like this perspective.  I wonder about "global
>> news, very relevant to local issues"  I'm willing to
>> let it set there, unpromoted to an aditional
>> category, if it becomes a presence in the minds of
>> our editorial and media writers.  It already is , to
>> some degree. it a place in the layout.)
>
>
>Now that you put it this way, I can see why the 3
>Newswire sections would actually be better than 2.  I
>guess that puts me in 100% agreement with the original
>suggestion.
>
>I think we might want to name these Newswire sections
>in a way that allows the original authors to place the
>posts in the best section for us, so that we have to
>do less work.  So we might want to call them "Local"
>"Global effects Local" and "Global"... er something.  
>
>How ever we do it, just remember that the reason why
>we just can't 'hide' our newswire 'problems' is
>because it takes too much labor.  So let us NOT take
>on a labor intensive solution, like requireing us to
>review each newswire post before it can be put into
>the appropriate newswire section. 


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