[Boston-editorial] why was this hidden?

[Matthew Williams]

I'm not sure what you mean by putting the article in comments, not the 
newswire. We don't have a commentswire, just a newswire and people post 
commentary there all the time. This sort of satire is a commentary in 
its own right--there is a long history of making political commentary 
through satire.

I think the main issue is whether it will be clear to people that this 
post is satire. I follow stuff related to the World Bank so closely 
that I'm not really a good judge of that. May be what we should do in 
this case (and any future posts like it, where things are unclear) is 
to add an editor's note that this is a satire, not something to be 
taken seriously. That seems better than hiding a perfectly legitimate 
form of political expression.

-- Matt

On Mar 19, 2005, at 3:05 PM, Pete Stidman wrote:

> I read it.  I even went so far as to hit the link-
> which is fake.  site doesn't exist.  I don't see this
> as an obvious parody- yes, it is obvous to us but not
> to others, and to what end is this parody?  It
> presents itself as a news release with tons of contact
> info at the end.
>
> I hid it because we hide infactual and misleading
> posts.  this is both.  We are not a website for
> parodies.  I can see it in the comments but not the
> newswire, not what we are calling news.
>
> -Pete
>
>
> --- Matthew Williams <mw21 at mindspring.com> wrote:
>> Hey Pete --
>>
>> I'm wondering why you hid this post:
>>
> http://boston.indymedia.org/newswire/display/33956/index.php
>> . It seems
>> to me like it's an obvious parody. (And, unlike the
>> Chuck Munson for
>> President, stuff it's not something spitefully
>> attacking another
>> activist.) Did you just not have the time to read
>> it? Or do I know too
>> much about the issue and is that it's a parody not
>> as I think? I'd like
>> to unhide it, if no one has any objections.
>>
>> -- Matt
>>
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