[IMC-US] syndication issues

[Chris Anderson]

Hi.

I have to take issue with the claim that the feature
on the Guckert scandal "links heavily to the corporate
media." In fact, it links to one and only one
corporate news source which is actually reprinted on
the sf-imc site (unless you count editor and publisher
as a 'corporate' source, like the nytimes, which i
dont.) Am I misunderstanding people's definition of
"corporate news"?

Anyway, I worked really hard to keep this story free
of evil corporate news links which is why I'm jumping
in. In general, though, I agree with the idea that the
IMC should be as free as corporate links as possible
... but not as a completely exclusionary policy.
Believe it or not, sometimes the corporate press
actually says something worthy of highlighting :)

best,
chris
--- bht <bht at indymedia.org> wrote:

> 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
> >
>
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