[Boston-editorial] Re: centering Iraq soldier article

[Pete Stidman]

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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