[Seattle-editorial] Newswire Editing

[anarch3m]

what has made it hard is that the bast----ds are enjoying it and we are all pressed for time to do real work.

Oh yes, the long screeds are filling hard discs!  but not paying for it.

Fair use?

walt
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--------- Original Message ---------

DATE: Thu, 9 Oct 2003 10:27:04 
From: "Gentry Lange" <g at art13.com>
To: "Jason Reep" <jasonr at speakeasy.net>,"Editorial" <seattle-editorial at lists.indymedia.org>
Cc: 

>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
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: seattle-editorial-bounces at lists.indymedia.org
>[mailto:seattle-editorial-bounces at lists.indymedia.org]On Behalf Of Jason
>Reep
>Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2003 8:44 AM
>To: Editorial
>Subject: Re: [Seattle-editorial] Newswire Editing
>
>
>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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