[IMC-US] syndication issues

[bht]

hey matt, all.

i think it sucks as well that there is still so much dependance in 
indymedia on the corporate media. the top promoted feature from nyc imc, 
for example, links heavily to corporate media articles.

as i understand it indymedia is supposed to be a different type of news 
source, documenting and offering the types of things that are 
unrepresented or underrepresented in corporate or other media. over here 
at portland imc, we do our best to uphold this. thats why most of the 
features that come are of local actions and community based things that 
you dont find in other media sources. however, some alternative papers 
and even sometimes the larger corporate papers here follow pdx imc and 
take stories fromt he site and expand upon them.

it is nice to see when other media outlets are basically following our 
lead, and not the other way around.

in the global imc, there exists a heavy standard to not link to 
corporate media in the 'abstract' of an article, and even in the bodywe 
try to keep corpo links out of there. i would like to see something like 
that. empowerment.

we dont need the corporate media, we dont have to lick at their heels. 
we can produce media that no corporate media outlet can, to do that we 
have to create ties with the communities that we serve.

anyway, i just want to support the idea of trying to reduce the 
dependance on corporate media.
bht
portland imc volunteer

Matt Fitt wrote:

> Hey imc-us folks,
>
> The site looks great! Thanks for all your work on it.
>
> One issue, however: A number of the syndicated articles, particularly 
> from sf-imc, are just reposts from relatively mainstream media 
> sources. Is there some way that the syndication streams can be 
> modified, filtered, limited so that these things don’t get through?
>
> For me, when I see a stream of local indy articles from around the 
> country it makes me really happy… it’s a reminder of how much great 
> work is happening all over the place. But when, instead, I see a long 
> column of articles from the Nation or the SFChronicle, it gives the 
> false impression that we’re not doing much as independent journalists.
>
> Thanks again for all the wonderful work.
>
> Matt Fitt
>
> Santa Cruz, CA
>
>------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>_______________________________________________
>IMC-US mailing list
>IMC-US at lists.ucimc.org
>http://lists.chambana.net/cgi-bin/listinfo/imc-us
>  
>