[Imc-uk-features] Who should do features?, was Re: Feature prposal:

[Genny]

Is it common for people to write features which are then rejected?  I thought that it was more a 
case of features not happening because no-one volunteers to write them.  As indymedia is a diy 
publishing project, there's not much to be done about this apart from maybe publicity work to try 
and encourage more people to write features.

Genny

Doug. wrote:
> Agreed, not a conspiracy but I do believe that features reflects an unspoken
> editorial policy. There are some odd omissions, like custody deaths for example,
> and there seems to be a disproportionate amount of international news. Even
> if you eliminate immigration that still leaves about 50% international stuff.
> There also seems to be a slight tendency to reflect mainstream news, although
> ironically when BBC TV and ITV covered London Critical Mass in May of this
> year, when CM won its court case against the police, there was no IMCUK feature
> at all. Instead in May we had news related to Moscow, Palestine, Mexico and
> yes there was a rare SOCPA feature also.
> 
> Personally, in the light of this, I do not feel confident enough to go to
> the trouble of creating a feature for possible approval in the face of what
> seems to be a strong bias and others may feel similarly. Please don't think
> this
> is a general criticism of IMCUK, the Newswire is admirable in the service
> that it provides.
> 
> Doug.
> 
>>
>> Look, it's as simple as this: people do features about the stuff they are
>> involved with/know more about. So it's not anyone's problem if some people
>> involved in some actions/campaigns can't be arsed to put together a
>> feature. It's not like an editorial conspiracy or something.
>>
>> --
>> Shiar
>>
>>
>> P.S. I find it funny that you include immigration with the
>> "internationally related"!!
>>
>> Doug wrote:
>>> I've just done a rough survey of UK features for 2006.
>>>
>>> 51 are internationally related, including immigration.
>>> 42 are UK related.
>>>
>>> The last SOCPA feature was 2-7-06 and the last Critical Mass feature was
>>> 4-10-2005.
>>>
>>> There seems to be a definite bias here.
>>>
>>> Doug.
>>>
>>>> Sorry to be rude, but this's bollocks. Especially with detention and no
>>>> borders stuff, Indymedia has always been a primary source, not only for
>>>> detainees and activists but also for the mainstream media themselves.
>>>> London people can tell you about their experiences with the Guardian,
> BBC
>>>> etc.
>>>>
>>>> The thing is, I didn't have internet access till now today, and seems
> no
>>>> one else could be bothered to publish the feature for me. I've done that
>>>> now and it's up :)
>>>>
>>>> I'll see if i could add a few paragraphs about Harmondsworth.
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Shiar
>>>>
>>>> Doug wrote
>>>>> I'd just like to point out that this has already appeared in the
>>>>> mainstream
>>>>> media, while some worthy news items that the mainstream media
>>>>> repeatedly
>>>>> ignores are also igored by IMCUK. Do we really want to be a pale and
>>>>> always
>>>>> late shadow of the mainstream?
>>>>>
>>>>> Doug.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I'd like to propose the following feature for the uk startpage. I'm
>>>>>> CCing
>>>>>> imc-london too cos I suppose they'd like to have it on London startpage
>>>>>> too?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I also propose that we don't wait 24 hrs but publish it tomorrow
>>>>>> morning
>>>>>> at the latest. I mean it's basically the same information as that in
>>>>>> 357282, which has been a breaking news all day. Also, If I had some
>>>>>> time
>>>>>> tomorrow, I'd like to add a section about Harmondsworth, or maybe UK
>>>>>> detention centres  in general.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> Shiar
>>>>
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