[IMC-UK-Features] United Families & Friends March should be on UK Site

[Mark]

This is so much much more than a mere regional story. Come on Guys!!!!!!

This is so much more than a mere regional news story (it's been uploaded
as main feature on the London site, but not the UK site).

Come on guys (in the Indymedia collective)!  This is not specifically a
London issue. Families and friends come from all over the country for this
demo. We don't say because the Climate Camp is in Kent that it should only
be advertised on the London site do we.

This is a partial application of astuteness in the the job of news
coverage when one event is valued beyond the importance of another without
rational or demonstrable justification. In that, then, I'd say Indymedia
has failed in it's responsibility and journalistic standards.





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Subject: Re:  United Families and Friends March
From:    "maqui" <maqui at syndicate.org.uk>
Date:    Sun, October 26, 2008 6:38 pm
To:      "Middle column features for Indymedia UK"
<imc-uk-features at lists.indymedia.org>

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Hi

On Sunday, October 26, 2008, at 12:31  pm, Mark wrote:

> Re:  United Families and Friends March

[...]

> I have done a write-up (copied below) which I have sent to Guy Smallman
> and Jason Parkinson, giving them the option of using it or bits from it
> for a
> posting which includes any photos they may have of the march yesturday
> that they are able to upload (which haven't been offered to media
> outlets
> which is fair enough in pursuit of them trying to make a living).
>
> I can publish it myself as well without images. I thought Peter
> Marshall's
> write-up was very good.

Thanks for your very good report Mark. Your report, together with those
of Peter Marshall and Terence Bunch have been turned into a front page
feature in the new IMC-London site:

http://london.indymedia.org.uk

"Annual United Families & Friends Remembrance March":

http://london.indymedia.org.uk/articles/142

Also, please note that as this event was taking place in London, it had
been listed for the whole week in the new Indymedia London site's
'Featured events' section.

Cheers
maqui