[Cc-webedit] [mediateam] News during camp & website

[Jody Boehnert]

HI Jonathan & all,

Yes, if I understand this correctly I have to say I do have a major
objection to it as I think it could easily undermine the work the media team
is doing in developing messaging. We should not publish opinions from
individual campers on our website as 'news' - This could potentially be
disasterous given the wide range of opinions within CC - it could be very
off-topic, ill-considered or even a little crazy.

I would not like to just pull articles from Indemedia either - although they
do have a bit of moderation set up it is not fast enough and their standards
are not the same as CC media policy.

'News' on our website needs to come from the media team, there is not way of
opening this up without causing chaos.  Blogs are different - but need to be
moderated, not presented as news, and not have as high a priority on the
site.

Jody









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2009/8/16 Jonathan Leighton <j at jonathanleighton.com>

> Hi all,
>
> [This is quite important to read if you care about the provisions for
> open publishing during camp.]
>
> So far, our plan has been to set up a news.climatecamp.org.uk website
> for people to post to. Some important concerns have been raised about
> this approach, and discussed informally between various individuals:
>
> * We don't have a process set up for moderating / promoting articles.
> Any process we do set up could be seen as an attempt by climate camp to
> control what people are saying.
>
> * Having a climate camp specific news site could be seen as distancing
> ourselves from Indymedia and therefore "the movement", which could
> amplify bad feeling
>
> * Setting up a specific news site would be more work for the website
> group to build and maintain. We are already short on time with the new
> website launching within 2 days.
>
> So there's a proposal for a change of plan.
>
> PROPOSAL: We use London Indymedia and pull promoted articles tagged with
> "climatecamp" from there. We put a link from our website which takes
> people directly to a publish page for this tag. This makes sense
> because:
>
> * We don't have to do any setup/maintenance
> * The camp is in London
> * It's part of Indymedia and therefore the "movement"
> * It won't leave people confused about what the difference is between
> Indymedia and "our" news site
>
> This is both pragmatic and probably better politically.
>
> We have basically no time for long discussions on this. If people have
> MAJOR objections, please voice them by NOON TOMORROW (that's Monday 16th
> August).
>
> Thanks,
> Jon
>
>
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> request access
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