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

[Jody Boehnert]

hi Jonathan, - I forgot to say thanks for all the work you are doing and
hope not stress you out at the last moment. Sorry if this conflicts with
earlier discussions that I missed - hope you can find a easy way to resolve
this???
Jody




www.eco-labs.org
www.teach-in.co.uk


2009/8/17 Jody Boehnert <jody at eco-labs.org>

> HI Jonathan & all,
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> '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.
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> 2009/8/16 Jonathan Leighton <j at jonathanleighton.com>
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>> Hi all,
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>> [This is quite important to read if you care about the provisions for
>> open publishing during camp.]
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>> 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:
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>> * 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.
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>> * Having a climate camp specific news site could be seen as distancing
>> ourselves from Indymedia and therefore "the movement", which could
>> amplify bad feeling
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>> * 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.
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>> So there's a proposal for a change of plan.
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>> 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:
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>> * 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
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>> This is both pragmatic and probably better politically.
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>> 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).
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>> Thanks,
>> Jon
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>> To get to the Media Team Crabgrass, email press at climatecamp.org.uk to
>> request access
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