[Imc-web] Re: [Imc-finance] Re: [Imc-info] april 1 humor on indy main

[faith swords]

oh good lord. this is wonderful. i thinkit should be widely circulated but
NOT posted. this seems like the kind of thing that could be taken
seriously by a lot of people and get a lot of panties in a twitch.

in a bad way.

On Thu, 1 Apr 2004, Shayne ONeill wrote:

>
> Heres the text. I've got everyones sirnames deliberately wrong.. (I'ts got
> me as the head of indymedia asia-pacific branch lamenting our need to go
> beyond the hiphop demographic and target 'soccer moms')
>
> -->
>
> Indymedia.org team in merger talks with CBS/Viacom
>
> George Soros, CEO of Indymedia.org ,  has begun merger talks with the
> CBS/Viacom
> News Network to help bring together the Vibrant Staff of the Independant
> News Network
> with the resources and Global Consumer Reach of the CBS news network.
>
> This follows a meeting of the IMC Board of Directors and key Indymedia
> shareholders
> where it was decided that Indymedia needed to branch out from its
> traditional liberal
> readership demographic to encompass more mainstream news interests and
> readerships.
>
> Shayne Brown, president of the Asia Pacific Indymedia Consortium said "Its
> fine we have
> our loyal readership we do. We wouldn't of gotten where we are without
> them. But our growth
> has been marred by our inability to target advertising at the so called
> 'Soccer Mom'
> demographic"
>
> A spokesperson for CBS/Viacom said "This represents an exciting stage for
> the CBS/Viacom Network.
> The Indymedia branding represents fantastic marketing oportunities for our
> clients to market
> product at the 'alternative' and 'hip hop' youth market that the Indymedia
> Network represents.
>
> In other news, Solicitors have issued cease and desist orders against
> Urbana Champaigne 'indymedia' centre
> after it failed to stop using the Indymedia logo. Urbana Champaigne was a
> former member of the indymedia
> network, but was asked to leave when it refused to accept certain
> categories of targeted media.
>
> "Indymedia has become obsessed with the dollar. UC-IMC feels that
> Indymedias obsession with monetising its
> brand name has detracted from Indymedias original goal of providing hip
> alternative music news for fans
> of Indy rock"
>
>
> --
> Shayne O'Neill
> http://perth.indymedia.org
> I know how hard it is for you to put food on your family."
>  ----George W. Bush
>
> On Wed, 31 Mar 2004, Sascha Meinrath wrote:
>
> > awesome!  i think if we ever stop being able to laugh at ourselves than
> > we're definitely taking ourselves too seriously.  i guess you know you're
> > doing great things when folks start paradying you.  i think we should post
> > the story as a feature on the UCIMC site also.
> >
> > ;)
> >
> > in solidarity,
> >
> > --sascha
> >
> > On Wed, 31 Mar 2004, Shayne ONeill wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > Hey. I've proposed a story to indy global newswire for the april 1 joke
> > > story idea
> > >
> > > "indymedia.org in merger talks with cbs/viacom"
> > >
> > > In the story I put imc-uc as the main oponents , claiming that indy is to
> > > concerned with money when it should be focusing on its original goal of
> > > providing news on indy rock music.
> > >
> > > Its a light hearted jab at the conspiacy stories that sometimes happen
> > > that uc-imc is too successfull with its fundraising.
> > >
> > > If you folks take offence I'll take that bit out. :)
> > >
> > > Solidarity in good humor;-
> > > Shayne.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Shayne O'Neill
> > > http://perth.indymedia.org
> > > I know how hard it is for you to put food on your family."
> > >  ----George W. Bush
> > >
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