[Seattle-editorial] FP: Inside the Indymedia Collective

[Sheri Herndon]

i'm not sure i'm an official editorialista cause i haven't participated like i'd like, but i think it's great and i really like your to the point intro to the story.

i say yeah!

(www-features has been talking about why we should be covering ourselves as indymedia more on the global features and i think seattle could do the same.  here's evan's blog entry on that:

http://www.anarchogeek.com/archives/000168.html#000168

sheri

>I just got done reading the article from Columbia Journalism's Review. 
>And just saw Sheri's email on it. Can we post it to the feature 
>page--highlight? Would love to get this posted ASAP; it would make great 
>Sunday reading:
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>subtitle: Inside the Indymedia Collective: Passion v. Pragmatism
>title: An outsider looks inside Indymedia
>
>text: Indymedia first went online amid the tear gas and tumult of the 
>Seattle
>World Trade Organization protests in 1999. The belief that the
>mainstream media were never going to explore deeply the downside of
>globalization, and the story of the various groups trying to fight it,
>had taken root throughout the mid-'90s. Activists concluded that if
>they wanted their story told with nuance and depth, they would have to
>do it themselves.
><a href="http://seattle.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=3D32497&gro=
>up=3Dwebcast"> Full story. </a>
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