[Imc-uk-features] Feature proposal: Tweedle Brown

[Chris]

Hi

On Wed 27-Jun-2007 at 02:44:46PM +0100, Ben wrote:
> 
> The GM piece has a very specific time scale, since it is
> promoting what is likely to be the last GM action this
> year taking place this weekend.

It has a link in the "Upcoming Coverage" box and a front
page feature article -- this is more than most protests
have before they take place...  

> It went up less than 48 hours ago which is why I was
> arguing that it would be good if it could be given a
> little more breathing space before being pushed down by
> a feature bringing together two things that apparently
> haven't yet warranted features in their own regions, let
> alone the UK front page.

There is no critera that an issues has to be first covered
by a region before it is covered nationally and you are
also well aware that London is struggling to write
features at the moment and I imagine that the Manchester
collective is in the same situation.

>  > > I'm not complaining about the quantity or quality
>  > > of the coverage
> 
>  > It appears to me that this is exactly what you were
>  > complaining about when you said "The manchester march
>  > didn't exactly get many reports the wire... Hardly
>  > quality indymedia reporting."
> 
> Nice example of selective quoting. 

Thank you, but it's hardly selective, here is what you
said in full:

> > > The manchester march didn't exactly get many reports
> > > in the wire,  mostly just whinging about lack of
> > > coverage in the mainstream media  and the usual
> > > moans about the STWC and A to B marching. Hardly
> > > quality indymedia reporting.

> I don't give a shit whether some STWC march of 2,000
> people gets significant coverage on the newswire or not.

Then why were you complaining about the coverage?

> Which bit are we talking about.. the bit where you said
> you were surprised that I wasn't asking for links to
> posts about how great blair was and phunkee suggesting
> you email the list to ask me to clarify my position
> before posting the feature - or the bit where you go
> ahead and post the feature anyway then say that you'd
> better go and respond to the bollocks from ben...

And I'm the one guility of selective quoting?

You were clearly reading what was happening in IRC even
though you didn't say anything when Phunkee asked if you
were blocking the feat:

12:10 <@phunkee> hmm just reading about the tweedle brown feature
12:11 <@phunkee> is ben's post a block?

50mins later:

13:00 <@chrisc> ok, feat is ready to go in 20mins when
                24hours is up: 
                https://docs.indymedia.org/view/Local/UkFeatureTweedleBrown
13:08 <@phunkee> unless ben confirms he's blocking it i'd stick it up
13:08 <@chrisc> right

I then realised you were working on the site:

13:10 <@chrisc> he is in admin!

And assumed that you had read what was said in IRC and
were not blocking the feature, so I published it, 5mins
early:

13:15 <@chrisc> ok, it's up: https://publish.indymedia.org.uk/

> Nice to inclusive indymedia process working in this case.

Nice of you to wait till the 24 hours is almost over
before trying to get the feature delayed...

Chris