[IMC-UK-Features] feature proposal: Go Indymedia, go! - Response to the SHIfT article

[wietse]

Hiya,

Shiar wrote:

> On Thu, May 22, 2008 3:26 am, wietse wrote:
>   
>> In this case I agree with Tony and Guido that responding to the SHIFT article by bringing it to the middle column will bring more attention to the issue(s) than the SHIFT article
>> would do on its own.
>>     
>
> And why exactly do we want to hide from or avoid these issues? Because they are 'controversial', difficult to engage with? Or because we don't agree on them and don't want to show our disagreements publicly? Or perhaps because, by facing them, we may admit things we don't want to?
>   

I agree that it needs a response. What I am questioning is whether the 
middle column is the best place for it. I would prefer to use the 
startpage for stuff that we really want people to know about and get 
active on, ie: grassroots news from the movement.

>> Also I think the response shouldn't be reffered to as a 'collective response'. If it was
>> then it should include every opinion on the issue, within the imcuk collective..
>>     
>
> Fair enough; i'll change to "IMCer" or something now. Just want to point
> out, again, that none of the features or statements published in the
> middle column before sought to represent "very opinion on the issue".
>   

I think this is very different from an 'ordinary' feature which tends to 
be reporting 'news'. Maybe we should refer to this as an editorial.

>> However, I do appreciate people's effort put into writing the response and I think it should be published, just don't think the middle column is the best place..
>>     
>
> Right. So would the Indymedia and Palestine topics (feature on these topic
> pages only) be the best place?

Yeah perhaphs. Maybe it could go on the newswire first and start talking 
to SHIFT mag about it going into the next issue. Remember that once it 
goes out onto any middle column it is picked up by the RSS feed and will 
thus appear on many different sites including the global newsire.

Wietse