Radical local newspapers
The Bristolian | 01.05.2005 18:31 | Social Struggles | Liverpool | Oxford
The Bristolian is a radical scandal sheet which currently distributes 5,000 copies a week. We'd like there to be more papers like this round the country so we're taking four months off to help set some up.....with your help!
The radical press is in the doldrums so we are trying to encourage people to set up their own newspapers in towns all over the country. We are happy to share our experiences of what works and what doesnt. It doesnt cost a lot of money for example and we can give tips for distribution. So if you want the shit to fly in your hometown then get in touch via e-mail
The Bristolian
e-mail:
localnews4us@yahoo.co.uk
Homepage:
http://www.bristolian.freeservers.org
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others
01.05.2005 20:16
red+black
Homepage:
http://www.libcom.org/britain
the BBC and a bus
01.05.2005 20:32
"Find out about the issues that matter to voters as reported by our team on the BBC News election bus. Using the map below, click on the links to read the stories from each location, from NHS issues in Birmingham to red tape concerns in Reading. If you want to get involved - ask questions, have your say on the issues and more - you can visit us next in Dover between 1200 and 1700 on Monday 2 May."
"the issues that matter"? this is deep irony. anyone regularly reading BBC news online over the last few days will know that the corporation has gone to great lengths to downplay recent revelations about the iraq war. the bbc, for all it's mateyness, really hates the british people.
nick watson
BBC are not independent!
02.05.2005 08:57
Labour are clearly using this threat to steer the BBC in a direction that suits their political 'regime'. News reports are affected by this threat, but it is also affecting election coverage.
The BBC set the criteria for party election broadcasts - they use this to place a percentage threshold on entitlement for number of broadcasts (across all TV and radio - not just BBC) and length of broadcasts. How much is this now influenced by the threat hanging over their licence?
Elise
Homepage:
http://www.greenoxford.com
Can radical newspapers work in the web world?
02.05.2005 10:48
I think the whole issue of printed literature for the movement is in crisis, as more and more people look to the web to find such informations these days. Newspapers are expensive, awkward and need their own distribution networks setting up, all of which takes people away from actually doing activism.
As one of the original writers on Oxyacetylene (anyone remember that?) I can tell you that finding time/motivation every fortnight for just a Schnews style double-sides sheet was pretty hard, and it seems to me that Indymedia Oxford is now fulfilling the role that Oxy took then, albeit in a different way.
On the other hand, there's nothing quite like having something in your hands (ahem), and I believe information more readily seeps in if you're reading it from the page rather than the screen. Otherwise I wouldn't be publishing a poetry magazine. But literature isn't agitprop, not all the time anyway.
Dave
Nothing quite like it :)
02.05.2005 16:25
So long as you don't need a microscope to see it-
All depends on the size of your print :)
Must dash, dragons dealt with, got a Griffin to slay...
;)
"there's nothing quite like having something in your hands (ahem)"
02.05.2005 16:59
It all depends on the size of your print ;)
:)
'Nerve' Liverpool's grassroots arts, culture and social issues mag
03.05.2005 13:49
Most community centres get our mag and we get a great public response.
Check out teh website for more info
Dazza
e-mail:
darren@catalystmedia.org.uk
Homepage:
http://www.catalystmedia.org.uk
Your link to bristolian
04.05.2005 09:28
Firstly - your link doesn't work
Secondly - are you the same peeps who do Bristle (
Bx
Bristling B
waste of paper
05.05.2005 07:39
indymedia can do the job... we should rather put more energy and resources into that!
sil-G