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Re: The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly: "What's the Matter with Indymedia?" |
by mamansita
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29 Jul 2005
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ok . maybe somebody is gonna make this point. i did not get all the way to thew end of the piece before i just reallyfelt i had to make a point to make.
as i amy be one of the lazy people you talk about who doesn't see journalism as my life-time goal. i am simply a common person out here in the dark trying to tell the news from the street as i se4e it.
in fact, rarely do i see enough news personally that i feel the pressing need to report. sometimes i read something or hear of some new laws that are set to go into effect that i feel folks who care may want to know about- before it's too late to do something about it hopefully.
i am also a busy mama who appreciates a chance to get my voice out there in the activist community- and a chance to hear the quiet voices out there of people who care like me.
so no i do not always edit or learn the computer tool trades i need to compete in the global news community. nor doi i want to invest that time to make it a priority. not because i'm lazy but because i have some other work to do.
in summary, please don't hand over the imc to the professionals. there are many voices out there with many things to say. hence the shit on the newswire. that's life! we don't all wanna be cnn.
i do like the idea some imc's were working on a few years where readers could rate a story and- give it a validity rating or something like that. like when somebody says " can i get a hell yeah?"
like a real conversation could be where people can refute of confirm statements made during the course of a conversation. |
