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

[Elly Robson]

Hi Jim Dog,

really sorry if that came across wrong; I wasn't implying that IMC
wasn't to be trusted or isn't responsible and completely on the right
page; I was trying to establish the media team responsiblity to the
camp to put across its key messages etc, rather than disparage the
great work of IndyMedia. The action support process is not meant to
exclude or imply that IndyMedia is untrustworthy!

With regards to this statement;

> 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.

Firstly, I certainly don't talk for the entire media team, and
secondly that certainly wasn't what I meant to imply.

Please don't be insulted; the media team and IndyMedia have worked
very closely and well together this year and we only lend each other
strength as long as we trust each other, both in integrity and good
intentions. Please trust that my intention was not to imply that IMC
are untrustworthy!

Elly



2009/8/17 Jim Dog <theinnercityhippy at riseup.net>:
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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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