[Seattle-editorial] Newswire Editing

[Gentry Lange]

One more thing before I go to work...

People have recently come to meetings to complain LOUDLY about the NAZI
posts on our newswire... and people complain all the time on the web, and in
person to me.

For a while I didn't want to notice how crappy the newswire is, but now I
have been forced to acknowledge it.

I can forward as many posts to you as you like, but I think if you were
looking for news on Seattle, I wouldn't check the IMC newswire directly.

Gentry

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I will be necessarily critical of radical policy changes.  I would again
like to re-iterate that the policy as it stands allows for the
aggressive hiding that seems to be in vogue right now.  I feel a
slippery slope coming on but I'm not going to object to the sincere
efforts to clean up the tone of the newswire.  As far as changing the
policy, I'd ask for people to be very careful.  This is something that's
at the core of what makes the IMC the IMC, all the bullshit politics
about the space aside.

Am I protective of the policy as is? Yes.  I was there when it written.
  I helped.  So take that as a bias if you want.  But, if you read it
and think about it, I think that you'll understand that it's very
flexible and strong.

What has the policy stopped the editors from doing that makes it so
important to change it?

-Jason

Gentry Lange wrote:
> Hey everyone... I don't have the time or patience to fight the newswire
crap
> all by myself. So until I have 2 other people commit to vigilante action
on
> a daily basis, I am going to postpone doing anything to the wire.
>
> My thought is that we need first, more volunteer editors, and 2nd a new
> policy. Until then I repeat, I will not be the only one doing this.
>
>
> Gentry
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