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

[Jim Dog]

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Elly Robson wrote:
> ps. a good example of the deep involvement of the media team in camp
> life is the support that the media team will be giving to those taking
> autonomous actions - the degree of trust and need for security means
> that it is important that this is a closed loop until the action is
> completed and we get the go ahead to publicise it.

I find this incredibly insulting since IMCistas have their own web of
trust that is uncompromised over 10 years globally. Firstly, we are
encouraging and empowering people to publish their own news, not send
yet another journalist out with them to report back in a way that suits
them (I noticed with interest that the media team are going to be
offering journalists from the guardian an "exclusive package" to go out
on a real life direct action).

No other movement has to my knowledge ever implied that people involved
in Indymedia, for whom media activism and giving a voice to grassroots
activists in a secure and safe way is their modus operandi, are not to
be trusted in some way as an officially affirmed policy.

I really don't like where the media team seem to be going on this, and I
believe it is starting to go way beyond logic in many ways.

In Solidarity

JimDog*
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