[Boston-print] Ideas for a name.

[mblanding at bostonmagazine.com]

What about "The Liberator", after the radical paper published in Boston
during the 19th century. It was published by William Lloyd Garrison, who
was a abolitionist and an anarchist. The title refers to anti-slavery, of
course, but I think could be taken more broadly.


> i think i like open ink. 'the usual' is catchy...with good design i
> think it could be a winner.
>
> kate
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>>      Hey folks, this is Svea from the IndyMedia DNC Video project.
>>
>>      During the biggest anti-Iraq war protest in Boston, the IMC Print
>> project distributed several thousand copies of a 4 page newspaper
>> called the "Boston Free Press".
>>
>>      We were asked by several folks who took the paper if it had any
>> relation to a local college paper with the same name. Obviously we
>> weren't, but there was an association that they made with another
>> publication when they saw the title of the paper.
>>      That said, there may be people who will recognize that name from
>>      the
>> War protest, even though there was a limited run. Robert prolly has a
>> better estimate on circulation
>>
>>      As an outsider viewpoint, the name "Boston Shadow Press" stands
>>      out
>> as a catchy and clever title.
>>
>>      Cheers!
>>
>>      Svea.
>>
>>
>>
>> Pete Stidman <pstidman at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> OK. I have a bunch of suggestions, including the ones
>> I already mentioned, either the Boston Independent or
>> simply the Boston INDY. and a new one I think is
>> good. "Open Ink" I like this cause the title implies
>> community involvement, consensus, forum and democracy.
>>
>> Whatever name we choose I strongly feel it should not
>> identify with any certain movement, environmental,
>> ideological or otherwise. A word like independent
>> implies that we are not corporate. Another theme that
>> I cannot come up with a good word for would be
>> something like forum, convergence, or gathering.
>> Still another concept would be the idea of having a
>> voice, we are like an amplifier or a spreader of words
>> from independent sources. Our name must be acceptable
>> to the greatest variety of readers. Our aim is to
>> become the media, and the print project was begun with
>> this idea as a motivation and a goal. The name should
>> be usable for a daily, and we should think of large
>> audiences, not specific ones.
>>
>> Somehow we have to break out of the realm of the
>> "political" specialty paper and into the "popular"
>> realm. News.
>>
>> I am here working on this paper because I see
>> opportunities beyond what even New York Indymedia has
>> done with their paper, so names that would limit this
>> progress, this ability to make it in larger audiences,
>> would make it hard for me to get the full advantage of
>> our efforts and my own.
>>
>> In the general public people make distinctions between
>> the genres of political and just a newspaper and it is
>> often based on a name. Even a name like the Metro
>> because it is widely acceptable would seem appropriate
>> to me. We want people to pick it up who normally
>> wouldnt.
>>
>> In the interest of brainstorming heres some more with
>> asterisks on the ones I really like:
>>
>> *Open Ink*
>> Boston Free Press
>> The Eye
>> Open Boston
>> Boston Standard
>> Boston Current
>> Boston Debut
>> Ink Coalition
>> Shadow Press
>> Fair Account
>> The Usual
>> The Boston Small Potatoe Farmer
>>
>> (OK they can't all be winners...)
>>
>> Let me know what you all think, everybody should throw
>> in their opinion on this.
>>
>> -Pete
>>
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>>
>> -Pete
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