[IMC-US] What's the Matter with Indymedia?

[deva]

I thought the article was decent... too bad Jennifer Whitney still has 
a chip on the shoulder about Portland

I like the idea of the issue

cheers
deva



On Jul 27, 2005, at 7:45 PM, john duda wrote:

> While there are a lot of things that aren't quite correct in this
> article, it's good to note that in the original context(LiP), it's
> part of a special issue "Constructively Negative: Sacred Cows", in
> which pretty much all the articles attack various things the left
> takes for granted as being awesome:
>
> "Featuring the gleeful evisceration of such sacred cows as pacifism,
> organics, woman-centered feminism, work, representative democracy,
> irony, and consensus, among many others." (from the website
> http://www.lipmagazine.org/, describing the issue )
>
> For alternet to reprint it out of this context is kind of shabby....
>
> john
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 04:34:38PM -0700, onto wrote:
>> http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/23741
>>
>> What's the Matter with Indymedia?
>> By Jennifer Whitney, LiP Magazine. Posted July 26, 2005.
>>
>> Conceived initially to allow everybody to 'be the media,' Indymedia is
>> plagued by everything from fascist messages to paralyzing ideology to
>> good old fashioned laziness. . .
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