Indymedia soooooo slow!!!!

by Yep Tue Sep 17, 2002 14:50

The frontpage is, once again, about 3 weeks out of date!!!! bloody hell...

by Ray Tue Sep 17, 2002 15:00

-Can nobody go to Carrickmines site and do an audio interview and post it? Or even get a protester to write it???

What about you? Why don't you go to Carrickmines and get an interview? Why don't you write a new story?

You don't need a special badge or secret handshake to be indymedia. You can write these articles yourself. This is an open publishing site, and nobody is getting paid (certainly not by you) to write stories. So don't complain that nobody else is writing these articles - DO IT YOURSELF!

by FriendOfRayz Tue Sep 17, 2002 15:09

yes. I'll do it from my wheelchair in Lambeth, London!!!

Great stuff!

by Ray Tue Sep 17, 2002 15:19

If you read the existing articles on Carrickmines you'll see there's a mobile phone number for the protestors. So yes, you could conduct an interview with them from a wheelchair in Lambeth, London.
I'm betting that most of those complaining about the lack of new stories aren't so far away.

by Graham Caswell Tue Sep 17, 2002 19:22

The feature updates may be slow but remember that Indymedia.ie had the Carrickmines occupation story on the newswire BEFORE any other Irish media.

Indymedia.ie had footage of the RTS rally that mainstream media didn't bother to cover.

Indymedia.ie was the only media willing to publish the Ansbacher report online in its entirety.

The news that the Tokyo Electric nuclear power utility had falsfied safety data and was supending its MOX program was even posted on Indymedia.ie by a Greenpeace insider BEFORE it hit the Japanese corporate media - and 3 days before there was a mention of it in irish commercial media.

With a minute fraction of the resources of commercial, mainstream media Indymedia.ie has done a huge amount in the 8 or 9 months since it went live.

Imagine what could be done with more people actively involved.