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[mini mouse]

At 9:02 pm +0100 4/6/07, Genny wrote:
>I totally accept what you're saying about the circumstances in which the
>report must have been written - I have enough trouble thinking of the
>right words when I have all day to just sit and type and retype.  I'm
>not blaming guido for using the word - I'm sure it was just done without
>thinking

Honestly, if you've been in that situation as a 
reporter/photographer, you're kind of  "shell-shocked" when you come 
out of it.  Your take on events may over-ride what others may 
subsequently regard as a lack of political correctness.

>  - but that doesn't make it any more acceptable to leave up on a
>site that's actively challenging oppression and discrimination.

Yup, corporate media have (absolute) editors in the same way as we 
have (consensus) admin.

>
>I don't think the issue is anything to do with bureaucracy and
>guidelines and rigidity etc.  It's about finding ways to ensure that
>discriminatory words, however innocently posted, are removed as quickly
>as possible.  Surely that's what we would all want, whether or not there
>are any guidelines to tell us so?

Of course, and we'll try to work towards that.  The difficulty today 
was that Guy was in a fast moving situation and hard to contact.

  In corporate media there would be a point of contact (an editor) to 
deal with this and there 'may' be a case for indymedia to consider 
this in major actions - although having spent a life working with 
corporate media I can think of a number of arguments against it.

mini mouse