[Boston-editorial] art?

[Sofia JarrinT]

As long as he doesn't overdo it, I like it fine. Maybe
he wants to promotes his skills to the community.

best,
sofia
--- Matthew Williams <mw21 at mindspring.com> wrote:
> Someone has posted his artwork to our newswire:
> 
>
http://boston.indymedia.org/newswire/display/34686/index.php
>
http://boston.indymedia.org/newswire/display/34685/index.php
>
http://boston.indymedia.org/newswire/display/34684/index.php
> 
> Is this something we want to leave up? I'm genuinely
> not sure. It 
> doesn't fit the definition of news any way you cut
> it, but he does seem 
> to intend his art to have a political message. If we
> want to be a 
> general media resource for people, should we allow
> them to use our 
> newswire to distribute their artwork? Is this
> something most people 
> will just regard as cluttering the newswire and an
> annoyance?
> 
> I guess my take is we should hide it, but in
> designing the new website, 
> we might want to think about ways to accomodate this
> sort of thing. 
> People post political flyers that would probably
> better fit on an 
> "artwire" or something better than on the newswire,
> so it wouldn't just 
> be for something like this.
> 
> -- Matt
> 
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