[Seattle-editorial] Re: [IMC-Seattle] "is anybody monitoring the seattle wire?" //Nat AL allert!!!

[jonathan lawson]

Hey.

As far as I can tell, no posts at all have been hidden from the newswire 
recently (and no proposals to do so have appeared on the editorial list), 
except for one post which was hidden by the author himself  (Gentry). In 
the interest of transparency, this hide was noted in the current top 
feature, which I wrote.

Not sure what "natal screeds" or "third position infiltrators" are, or what 
posts you might be talking about. At any rate, the proper course for 
dealing with a perceived newswire problem is spelled out on the website as 
follows:

above the newswire there's an "editorial policy" link which points to this 
page:
http://seattle.indymedia.org/policy.php3

the page outlines the values of the site administrators, explains under 
what circumstances an article can be hidden, and links to the page 
explaining the specific procedure:
http://seattle.indymedia.org/newswire-hide.php3

this page includes very specific information about the entire process and 
lists the email address of the editorial collective.

hope that helps,

Jonathan

At 02:13 PM 6/6/2003 -0700, anarch3m wrote:
>Walt at the space.  I had a call from Bruce of local anarchist antifascist 
>activity.
>
>He was relaying dismay of others, back east as well, who came to the 
>seattle site and wanted to check about LEIU.
>
>Instead they were affronted by the nearly dozen NATAL SCREEDS on the wire, 
>mostly of course disimformatively attributed to Arabs (otherwise refered 
>to as "Sand Niggars" when they are more forthright and not on the 3rd 
>position scam)
>
>So people want to know "why we are hosting National Alliance on the 
>site."  And Bruce wants to know what happened to the peace they put to 
>inform the public what was happening with these postings, to warn the 
>naive about the "third position" infiltrations.
>
>Who what why
>
>Basic journalism.  Basic education.  Basic newswire theory.
>
>Basically not being done.  And Bruce wants to know who took down the 
>expose and left the screeds untouched.  I trust that Bruce is correct 
>about their getting the post up and seeing it posted.  I trust Bruce that 
>it was up and then gone.
>
>The question is did IMC editorial or did NATAL?
>
>Got any clues?
>
>walt
>imc space
>
>
>
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