[IMC-UK-Features] modified coal rush feature for uploading
ben gringo
gringoben at gmail.com
Tue Mar 3 08:09:29 PST 2009
wietse wietse at indymedia.org wrote,
> Really good feature. In my opinion however,
> the abstract very (maybe too) long.
> Could we shorten it, or move the last paragraph into the article
body?
I'll see what I can do. I've already shortened the original text in
order to add the new paragraph and I'd not want the new paragraph lost
into the article body.
(This is an issue with our current features system - people have grown
used to trying to fit everything into the abstract and people don't
expect to find much worth reading in the whole article).
I also realise that the existing article body is now too specific to
the climate rush action in london rather than coal actions generally
and I'd like to change that and perhaps repost the alternate coal
awards categories as an addition.
Could probably go back further in the article body to mention the coal
train action as court cases for that will be happening soon.
ben
ps. found this nice text regarding the coming bank rush but I don't
think there is room in the abstract for it.
"The Climate Rush suffragettes are targetting long term coal investor
Royal Bank of Scotland with a flash mob this Thursday lunchtime. The
bank has been in the headlines recently after a taxpayer bailout of
£33 billion - part of which is funding disgraced director Sir Fred's
£16 million early retirement. Royal Bank of Scotland has
controversially been funding coal extraction and burning -
(for more info see the Cashing in on coal report by PLATFORM. http://www.oyalbankofscotland.com/cioc/)
(Facebook page is here: http://www.facebook.com/events.php?ref=sb#/
event.php?eid=53273225171)"
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