[Boston-editorial] centering article

[Matthew Williams]

Sharpie's right--we generally don't feature calls to action and other 
announcements (other than our own announcements), because we don't want 
to be in the position of picking and choosing whose events we're going 
to promote. Besides, I really don't know anything about this group. If 
we did decide to promote their call to action for some reason, I would 
really want to know more about them. There are some shady groups that 
manage to put up slick fronts out there.

I suppose you could argue this is also a commentary, but it doesn't 
have much depth. We generally require commentaries to lay out some 
facts and analyze them, to give them substantial basis, not just to be 
opinion. Before we came up with this guideline, we did not normally 
feature commentary--this guidelines gave us some way of making choices 
about which commentary was worth featuring or not.

I suppose you could convince me we should make an exception to the 
guidelines and feature this, but you'll need to make some sort of 
in-depth argument.

-- Matt

On Jun 29, 2005, at 4:17 PM, Sofia JarrinT wrote:

> More than an announcement, it's a call for unity...
> It's more of a re-post than anything.  I would like to
> post it as is (instead of writing my own) because it
> reflects an anti-war section of the Boston community
> that I haven't seen before.  If I write something,
> it's just my opinion...  boring!
>
> peace,
> sofia
>
> --- sharpie at riseup.net wrote:
>
>> I'm under the impression that we don't feature
>> "announcements"? which this
>> appears to classify quite plainly as.... ?
>>
>> peace
>> sharpie
>> ps i'd do some interviews with folks organizing it
>> that would make a great
>> piece!
>>
>>> hi,
>>>
>>> I would like to center this:
>>>
>>
> http://boston.indymedia.org/newswire/display/39141/index.php
>>>
>>> And shamelessly begin to promote the march in DC
>> on
>>> September 24.
>>>
>>> Any objections?
>>>
>>> peace,
>>> sofia
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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