[Seattle-editorial] Re: Eliminating non-local news

[anarch3m]

I have a feeling this is going to resolve to our benefit and rather soon and rather easily.  Perhaps patience will thin out down the road, but I have a feel that its going to be ship shape before we realize.

Yeah lets reactivate an ed's picks.

As for local writers writing about global issues, non local issues........get them to pick up a presspass.

Cuz I want there to be valuable territory on the wire which is precisely for 

PressPass Holders

sort of like for active core members, a little more than what the open world is given access to.

Oh, call me an elitist swine, why not!   :)

I'm outreaching, in the comments, for local content providers, like the oly cop watch guy and his associates.

Grouping started with the Pal/Is  but it soon was obvious that lots of categories meant lots of searching and sorting.  National and International is a good broad category- but some overlap.  Is it the Phillipine insurrection, or the American Prez trip which gets to determine a place for todays news, when it comes onto our wires?
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--------- Original Message ---------
From: typist at speakeasy.net
>However, becoming more locally focus is not off the table.  It's where we need to be moving.  I understand just wanting to deal with one thing at a time; but being overwhelmed has never stopped us before from taking on more.  :)
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>An email discussion of it is going to save us some meeting time.  The grouping thing is great, so glad Jason pulled it out of his bag of tricks.  We could also group by national news and/or international news.  As it is we're not getting a enough local stuff to keep the newswire lively, but we will with outreach and better publicity.  Once that begins to happen, grouping nationally and internationally will make sense.  We can also use a policy of "editor's picks" to keep the interesting and compelling articles -- original good writing or kosher copy right posts -- I'm thinking of Palast posts, which I always enjoy seeing and am glad someone forwards to us-- on the newswire.  What I'm saying is we don't have to group everything out by national or international.  We can use our discretion to leave on the wire things we want to share with readers.  Just our main focus will be local/state.
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>We do not have to be dogmatic with the newswire.  I think we're all pretty much in accord with what is good for the wire and what is not.  If an article is really interesting, leave it on the wire no matter what the topic.  If it's a poorly writen piece and not local or Washington news, let's start thinking about grouping it under national or international or the always useful "other" category.  
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>Judy
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: nathaniel t [mailto:vsea75 at hotmail.com]

>> Subject: Re: Eliminating non-local news
>> 
>> 
>> >Isn't Seattle Indymedia open to posts about global issues from local
>> >writers?
>> 
>> There's no way to tell which posters are local.  We can only filter by
>> content.................... we're going to have to
>> do Nazi Watch every day to keep our critics happy.
>> 


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