[IMC-UK-Features] remit of indymedia, was: Feature proposal

[thewallmustfall at riseup.net]

I am now presuming this feature can go up as it has been proposed since
tuesday and alterations have been made re all the concerns raised. It now
reads more like a feature and less like a callout with all the first
person phrases taken out

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> On Thu, October 9, 2008 9:48 am, ana wrote:
>> it is great to have new groups of people preparing features and even
>> promoting their actions (we've probably all done it?) but at the risk of
>> sounding patronising, i think it is important, or at least i would like,
>> that every one understand the reason/s why indymedia was created, and
>> promoting future demonstrations or events was not one of them ...
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> That's right and understandable, but there are always ways of going round
> these things: by attributing the info to someone, putting it in a news
> context rather than a direct call-out etc. It's all about the language not
> intentions imo. I mean you can write a report that something is gonna
> happen much as you can report that something has happened. It happens all
> the time. Not that i'm advocating going down this route for features, but
> we don't have to be so strict imo.
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> Shiar
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