[Imc-uk-features] Re: 309191 - our approach to hiding

[Maqui]

ionnek at aktivix.org wrote:

>A proposal: 
>
>Maybe we could think about using the topics more. Move things like the 
>zapatista dolls to "culture" for example (one of the pics was in a museum, 
after 
>all :-). And move all these angry rants about censorship to the indymedia 
>topic. This would tie in with some proposals ben is drafting on the wiki at 
the 
>moment, it's linked from the ImcUk wiki titled emerging imcs.

I agree with this. I think this is a quite good compromise, and I second 
it. Whilst I acknowledge the ammount of work some folk in the network put 
into cleaning the newswire (for which I am very grateful) I also think we 
should try to keep the hidding to the minimum. For me open publishing, 
and the fact of having editorial guidelines that are quite open to 
interpretation, is what makes Indymedia different from a more traditionl 
counterinfo project.

For example, I dont' like the swp neither. I don't like the organisation 
or its politics, at all! Thiose that know me can testify that :-)  Nor I 
think the old lefty ways of making politics make much sense, but like it 
or not, they are still quite present in campaigns and mobilisations that 
indymedia usually covers. A clear example of this is the anti-war 
'movement' of the last two years or so. At least, in London, the Stop the 
War coalition is effectivelly another front for GR amnd the SWP (grrr!). 
Should have we hidden many of the reports of F15 for example? Should we 
just keep in the newswire anti-war stuff that is free from any STW 
flavour? ... Hmmm I don't think we can.


>During the G8, we will have lots of posts that some of us don't 
>like, but can live with, and i think the threshold for hiding should be 
>quite high. I am hoping that imc uk is reporting about the g8 
>alternatives demo, for expl.

Yup, me too. I don't think we could ignore that, nor we can ignore 
whatever goes on with the Make Poverty History demo in Edimburgh the 
saturday before the G8 summit starts. I don't think that to report on 
this sort of stuff makes indymedia closer to the hierarchical left. 

Anyway, put it another way, I don't think anyone involved with indymedia 
can expect to build a media project that basically represents his o her 
own poilitics ... this would be, in my view, contrary to the very idea of 
Open Publishing. For me OP is still basically an experiment. A way of 
trying out new paths in grassroots and participatory politics. Yup, OP 
may be a annoying sometimes,  but in my view it is still worth the pain 
:-)

anywho, my five cents ... an keep up the good work!

maqui
>
>best
>ionnek