[Boston-editorial] Re: centering Iraq soldier article

[Sofia JarrinT]

hi,

I strongly encourage you both to re-read the article
and search through Jay's web site.  The more you look
into it, the more credibility it has (also see Tim's
email on this). The rest of his postings are not
interviews, they are letters of soldiers that he has
posted on his website:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CFTMGroup/message/491

Here is a "letter to the editor" he got, in response
to his article:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CFTMGroup/message/665

He has also written other articles on poverty and so
forth:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CFTMGroup/message/706
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CFTMGroup/message/705

And, here is an article on Salon.com that shows some
of the emotional and physical reactions that soldiers
with PTSD have when they come back home:

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2005/06/07/whistleblower/index_np.html

I don't think we should weigh this article on Jay's
response or not.  I don't think we have a policy that
unless the author contact us, we'll center the article
or not.  In regards to timeliness, the interview was
originally done in January (as Jay mentions on the
article), so it's not really tied to an "event".

Just one more thing, his website promotes an open
newswire like us and it is another good example of
collective indy media, and I really don't mind
promoting it (as well as hopefully attracting some of
his writers to our site as well).

cheers
Sofia



--- Pete Stidman <pstidman at yahoo.com> wrote:

> oops, I just emailed sofia and sharpie off list by
> accident.  
> 
> So far we are deadlocked.  I was ready to stand
> aside
> because I thought I was alone on this but since
> sharpie feels the same as I it gives me more
> confidence in my feeling that something is amiss in
> this article.  
> 
> To break the deadlock I suggest first of all
> somebody
> re-send the link to the list, I can't find the damn
> article anymore. Second of all we get a hold of Jay.
> 
> Thirds of all we inspect his other stories and so
> on. 
> 
> 
> THis story is getting stale, but he may post more in
> the future.  
> 
> One thing I thought was odd when I originally looked
> at Jay's links is it is all interviews with
> soldiers. 
> A one subject guy.  I wonder how many of those were
> anonymous?  all?  
> 
> -Pete
> 
> 
> 
> --- Sofia JarrinT <sofiajt at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> > 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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