Speaking as someone who waits with baited breath for the latest issue of Schnews to appear to give me anarchically comical insight from the back streets of be- right- on...
And speaking as someone who also clicks on indymedia.uk.org to get the latest hot from the streets reportage coming from legions of activist-journalists “being the Media” at the latests heroic attempt to crash the towers of Mammon........
I was slightly perplexed by the bizarre genetic merging of Indymedia and Schnews to create the bastard of offspring Frankenstein know as.......
So what's going on?
Today is a huge blockade of awe Aldermarston which is mentioned in the “up coming coverage section” and last week was the police assault on the No Borders shelter in Calais, both of these events appear to have given way to Schnews.
I appreciate that Indymedia UK has been going through some tough times of late, and I recognise that Schnews does gives excellent coverage but why the merging of the two? The lead stories don't even link to other Indy stories on the same topic but to Schnews stories on different topics.
Now, I'm sure that the someone will say that the reason the Aldermaston story is not up is cos no one wrote it yet, but I'm sure that a rehash of say Trident Ploughshare's website and then a link to some time lines could be done as has happened for similar events!
The No Borders piece in fact is updating in the way that Indymedia is famous for and should have stayed put.
So please, dear friends from Schnews could you not take over the feature column with your witty repartee? Or at least explain your plans to us mere mortals on the public parts of Schindy.
Scheers
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I kind of agree
16.02.2010 00:07
I have been a bit confused by all the schnews appearing of late, it gives the impression that 'non media' people/indymedia people have little or nothing to contribute since all that appears are schnews letters for most of the posts, when of course this is not hte case.
Schether
Maxwell Speedboat
16.02.2010 09:47
Having looked at the middle features column Schnews are generally sticking to the arrangement and if the middle column looks Schnews heavy its only really because there is a lack of other artciles being published to space the Schnews articles out.
IM needs more middle column editorial content based on the newswire.
So what happening there then?
Amplifier
Re: I kind of agree
16.02.2010 10:13
To clarify, any individual (or group) can propose a feature (as long as they write it!) by emailing it to imc-uk-features@lists.indymedia.org
Another IMCista
the only real problem is...
16.02.2010 12:27
If other activist media collectives were doing the same thing on Indymedia it wouldn't look so Schdominated(!)
Would IMC-istas be okay with the likes of Resistance, Class War, Movement, Hereford Heckler, Gagged, Porkbolter, etc, etc doing the same thing?
reader
@ reader
16.02.2010 12:34
As the post above yours says:
"To clarify, any individual (or group) can propose a feature (as long as they write it!) by emailing it to imc-uk-features@lists.indymedia.org"
more thorough reader
signs of demise
16.02.2010 13:17
Independent?
re: signs of demise
16.02.2010 14:24
Signs of demise eh!
Read the original thread. It says nothing about a merger, its an experimental deal between the two parties. Still if it floats your boat to say its dying then have it your way. IM is dying.
Look forward to reading your posts about the demise of IM in another ten years!
Maxwell Speedboat
schgoing a bit to far
16.02.2010 19:02
I also think its a fair point that if indymedia uk is going to have this special thing going on where schnews publish a weekly article its not fair on other papers (porkbotler, hereford heckler, class war, etc. that were mentioned)., doesnt make sense to me. admittedly i'm not a part of the indymedia team or collective and didnt know about that discussion ting that was posted but most people i've spoke to don't really like it. anyone got a good proposol for getting the opinion off of more indymedia readers/contributors to see what people think/want from their indymedia?
lazy
Yawn
16.02.2010 23:51
Mr Snore
hmm
17.02.2010 10:44
Also for me it opens up wider issues. What is the purpose of IMC? If it's just to provide non-mainstream coverage of stuff, then the Schnews posts fit the bill. If it's dependent on something, an action or protest happening (my preference), then they don't. Some IMCs around the world a while ago tried separating the newswire from opinions, rants and info, which had their own wire.
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nail in the coffin
17.02.2010 11:53
The very fact that this thread of discussion is still in the newswire is another indication of the sorry state of indymedia. It i clear that there are not enough admins and that perhaps stems from the fact that there are so few active indymedia collectives in this country anymore and those which do exist are running their own sites. If those collectives could actually demand and get proper representation and visibility on the UK site then perhaps things might start to turn around but I'm not holding my breath.
sad day
I don't mind the stories but...
17.02.2010 20:49
"The lead stories don't even link to other Indy stories on the same topic but to Schnews stories on different topics" (from the same edition of Schnews).
Don't think this has been addressed by the IMCer responses?
in d schnews
@ "in d schnews"
17.02.2010 22:36
The format and links are being discussed on the features list:
http://lists.indymedia.org/pipermail/imc-uk-features/2010-February/0214-94.html
IMCista
middle of the road?
19.02.2010 12:09
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