[IMC-Boston-Editorial] Purge and Story

[Sofia JarrinT]

hi,
  I deleted that because it's an exact duplicate of an announcement sent  by the Democratic party thru their email list (I'm signed up to their  list and get about 2-3 emails from them per week).  I just wanted  to make sure that a precedent is not set that people start posting  calls to action/announcements they get thru email lists they've signed  up to, specially from big groups such as Democrats, MoveOn, etc.   I just don't consider that "news".
  
  It has nothing to do w/it being Democrat, Republican, Green, or  Purple.  But I'll be happy to talk more if the above is a problem.
  
  cheers,
  Sofia

"visnusdream at juno.com" <visnusdream at juno.com> wrote:  I love the idea of presenting an opinion gathering story.  Perhaps, we could write it together as a group, similar to a Wiki  format, but just using the list. (?) Or someone can just write the  article and the rest of us can rubber stamp it. Whatever, you guys want.
  I don't want my last off-list e-mail to seem overly strident  regarding the Purge issue. I think it is a topic that we can discuss  and hopefully find a solution that satisfies most of us. 
  We are finding more and more topics that are going to require a face  to face discussion, and perhaps debate, if we are going to  reach consensus. I look forward to the up coming meeting. 
  I'm not sure why this article was hidden:
  http://boston.indymedia.org/newswire/display/47169/index.php
  The notes said it was Advertising for Democrats (!!??!) Its a link  to a petition condemning the war in Iraq and calling for an  investigation!!! Nobody is making money off it. In fact, it is arguably  news, just because it is being circulated by an elected official. If  someone wrote a story saying that Ted Kennedy is trying to have the  President impeached; how could we deny that it was newsworthy?
  I am so confused with the way the editorial policy is being implemented, I can't describe it.
  How can we hide this, and then leave this weirdo Anti-Christian garbage up:
  http://boston.indymedia.org/newswire/display/47327/index.php
  I thought this was "open publishing." What does the term mean if we are going to hide everything we don't agree with? 
  I honestly do not mean these as rhetorical questions. I think we  need to have a radical and passionate discussion about editing the  site. 
  At the current rate, I just don't have time to e-mail this list  every single time an unoffensive or relevant post gets removed.
  I think a completely new, ideologically driven editorial policy is  being implemented. What I have seen leads me to believe that the  Editorial policy as written is completely inadequate to justify  some of our practices. Furthermore, I think it is  obviously inadequate to curb our tendency to  hack and  slash across the website. 
  I thought "open newswire"  meant people could put any and  all news on it, whether so-called radicals think the ideas are  worthy or not. Who are we to censor some of this stuff. i think we  should cultivate a broad readership. Furthermore, our readers are  intelligent enough to decide for themselves what is worthy of being  read, or supported. 
  I am afraid that we are becoming the monsters we want to undo.
  Please, excuse any offenses I may have made. I am trying to move  from being part of the problem to part of the solution, but I have a  long way to go. 
  Let's get some feed back from our readers. Let's get feedback from  the general IMC body. Let's talk to each other, and let's  find balance. 
  Love and respect,
  Jamie 
   
   
   
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