[Imc-uk-features] publishing guidelines

[Shiar]

On Sun, July 15, 2007 7:42 am, Anarcho Babe wrote:
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> For me, the feature was always more fact-based and more objective in a
> way than the newswire reports, making
>
> indymedia's truth= facts + summary of as many personal reports of the
> event as close to the time it happened as possible.
>
> Also Indy never really seemed to tell people what they should believe and
> we had a policy not to tell people of what they should do either, because
> we believed in reporting rather than indoctrinating or using indy as a
> recruitment tool. I believe that's still the reason for indys good
> reputation.
>
> Also, in the end, I would want to stress that personal subjective
> evaluations, interpretations, comments and conspiracy theories are better
> published on blogs and if indymedia would like to branch out into this
> area, it would be great that we offer a kind of "indyblogs" - rss feed
> collection as we previously discussed some years ago at a network meeting,
> rather than in features.

That's exactly what mianstream and corporate media say too, though ;)

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Shiar