[Seattle-editorial] FP: Inside the Indymedia Collective

[Jeremy G Kahn]

thumbs up. We shouldn't be covering indymedia every day, (otherwise 
navel-gazing will take over) but it's good to have a well-written piece 
up once in a while.

--jeremy

typist at speakeasy.net wrote:

>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
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>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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