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2003-12-04 Fifth Column

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Posted by Atrus 2003-12-04 1:50:51 PM|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 MONEY HASNâT BEEN the only problem.

Yeah, the problem is nobody outside of the fringe wants to read your crap. Unlike places like Rantburg, Chicagoboyz, Belmont. And the leftist bigwigs want to buy 5 radio stations and start a Nation Whining Network?

Reminds me, time to send some $ to FP.

Posted by Anonymous 2003-12-4 2:12:12 PM|| 2003-12-4 2:12:12 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 Dammit, I see the title, I expected dead jihadis.

Posted by Steve 2003-12-4 2:30:39 PM|| 2003-12-4 2:30:39 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 A number of media activists complained that the core group running the IMC was cliquish and inaccessible.

Just like any respectable socialist party.

in practice it was open publishing, meaning that anyone could send in a story and it would run untouched

Except that we know that they filtered out content that was not considered "correct". And when you do that, you are shown to agree with what remains. They may be jargon-laden, factually incorrect anarco-leftist and anti-Semitic rants, but at least they weren't sympathetic to bushitler.

The Internet has proven to be the most powerful medium we have for breaking that monopoly.

And still you failed. Not because of the corporations, or censorship, or Ashcroft's evil minions. But because you couldn't support it. If your system can't even sustain a simple web page, please stay the f*ck out of politics.

In the end, core members were clashing over personalities, vision, and what to do about the debt.

Give credit where it's due: at least they didn't call for purges.

Posted by BH 2003-12-4 2:38:47 PM|| 2003-12-4 2:38:47 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 Is *that* what that was? I walk buy this storefront 'office' every day and always wondered what the heck it was. The office often looked dirty with scattered newspapers/newsprint on the floor and old moldy furnature. Dark and dank. What it remined me of was an Orc hole....

How approprate....

Posted by CrazyFool 2003-12-4 3:19:19 PM|| 2003-12-4 3:19:19 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Reminds me of a far lefty post which, after spewing the same old anti-Bush, anti-America bile, asked, "why won't anyone discuss these issues anymore?" The answer is that reasonable people get tired of answering the same old pathetic questions, which aren't rooted in reality anyway.

The left has whined itself into irrelevance.

Posted by Hyper 2003-12-4 3:20:03 PM|| 2003-12-4 3:20:03 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 We got some cold bastards at Rantburg.

Seattle Indy was Cave 1 of the Moonbats. It needs to be preserved (like Lenin)in all its moronic glory that our Grandchildren can look and say "Jeez granny this is soooooo '90s."

Posted by Shipman 2003-12-4 3:54:59 PM|| 2003-12-4 3:54:59 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 When you have no answers to the questions you raise, when you don't even have any suggestions except "crouch down and stare at your navel", after awhile, people get tired of watching the dead lice fall off you, and walk away.
The only way to keep people interested is give them something to chew on, and give them reason for hope. Rantburg allows all of us to spew, but unless it also contained some cogent points that educated, enlightened, or amused, we'd be gone faster than a link change. Indymedia died because it couldn't produce anything relevant to the world people live in. RIH.

Posted by Old Patriot 2003-12-4 6:08:27 PM|| [http://users.codenet.net/mweather/default.htm] 2003-12-4 6:08:27 PM|| Front Page Top

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