Indy Media Watch

So, I was the person who made the "shocking idea" remark. And I stand by it here too. And, so you know, I generally post supportive comments here and have become highly critical of what Indymedia has devolved into.

That said, if Indymedia was living up to its original vision of open citizen journalism, I think we would see at least some articles on the UK site about the situation. Maybe some individuals would share their first-person accounts of trying to travel after attacks were thwarted. Or share what must be some tough internal questions that get raised when contemplating that several of the terrorists were UK citizens.

I do think the role of alternative media is to report on issues other than what the mainstream press might make a fetish of obsessing over. But that said, I think it's safe to say that the thwarted attacks probably have really shaped the everyday lives and thoughts of many Brits, and the fact that the UK Indymedia site is bereft of many articles about that, does show that it's become disconnected from the community it serves. (Or that it's just decided to serve a small fringe community, which would be an enormous shame.)
 

A number of articles have been posted to the UK UK Idymedia site on this subject including an excellent piece talking about how many Brirish Muslims are seeking an Islamic Britain. This together with the others we removed. They will be posted to the IMC Monitoring team site later this month

IMC Monitoring Team Member
 

I have heard about you guys.

Can you please email me via the address at the top left. Thanks.
 

"open citizen journalism"

An utter joke. Just go to Amazon and read Joe Blow's reviews of anything to get a sense of what the average mind can't do.

Facts are wanting in the biased mainstream media, and it's mostly noise and graphics, but the indymedia is the last thing I'd consider as an alternative. It's populated by nothing but appeasers and wacko religious cultists. Yeah, multi-culti peaceniks (AKA hate Whitey types) are an irrational cult unto themselves, just as bad as the Christians they demonize. The self anointed "intellectuals" offer me nothing.

There's no true source of facts anymore, from any side. It's all propaganda riding piggyback on ad after ad after ad after ad....
 

David: I agree entirely. By the way, DC Indymedia should be added to that list of "black hole" Indymedia collectives. It's sad, and really just a little bit nutty, that a project beginning as an open newswire has been hijacked and repurposed by some editorial groups into a niche fringe media outlet enforced by heavy censorship.

"Her majesty's secret service": Indymedia's present failure shouldn't be taken as an inditement against citizen journalism as a whole. Before Indymedia devolved into its current mess, it wasn't unusual to find well written and researched articles contributed by folks with more credentials and expert knowledge than you'd find in a typical mainstream media newsroom.
 

There are good Indymedia sites that offer the alternative news most here are seeking. The short lived Indymedia GB site was one and the Belgium Dutch version is also good as it gets contributions from real journalists. The current UK site is just a joke, their obsession is always the same - how can we link this to Jews ?
 

I am another person who once worked on the UK Indymedia website. The site is now controlled by a very small group who have a Stalinist approach to editorial control and have corrupted it. The GB site WILL be back and we hope to see the UK site dead and gone by the end of the year.