[Boston-editorial] Re: centering Iraq soldier article

[Sofia JarrinT]

hi,
This brings up an issue on how consensus and blocking
powers work for centering articles.  There are 4
people (tim, jon, matthew, and I) who think we should
feature it and 2 others (Pete and yourself) who don't.
 Have you guys run into this before? What do you do in
this case?

I do think it's newsworthy since the only other
feature we've had about Iraq is protests. It would be
nice to have something with more meat in it, and this
is a personal account of a soldier.  I re-read the
article and think it's very genuine.

cheers,
Sofia 
Ps: sorry, I should have sent the original email to
the BIM Editorial list to begin with.

--- sharpie at riseup.net wrote:

> Hey Sofia, I still feel how I said I felt before,
> that the article doesn't
> ring true to me, it feels a little shady, and I also
> just don't feel
> there's much newsworthy merit to it.
> 
> I agree as well with the things Pete said about the
> article, and I think
> that if Jay really wants his article to be featured
> on Boston Indymedia,
> the least he could do is to write at least one of us
> back.
> 
> But I'd like to hear Pete's thoughts.
> 
> peace
> sharpie
> 
> > hi guys,
> >
> > If you don't have huge opposition to it, I would
> like
> > to center Jay's article.  The rest of the editors
> are
> > ok with it.  Please let me know.
> >
> > gracias!
> > sofia
> >



		
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