I've always wanted to dabble in amateur reporting myself and it seems like we're pretty well positioned to publish fully uncensored leftist content. The recent post on Belarus and just the energy I feel from the server in general leads me to feel like we have a responsibility to elevate ourselves beyond just shitposting and providing support to our comrades as an online space.
E.G. there's a lot of stuff going on regarding homeless advocacy where I am but doxing myself has always been a concern.
There’s nothing stopping you from using this as a platform for journalism, but it’s not the best choice for one. It’s better as a sounding board for new ideas, and further dissemination and examination of existing ones.
Firstly, this place doesn’t have a whole lot of reach. It works for discussing specific ideas among leftists, but it’s not great at disseminating new ideas widely.
Secondly, this place isn’t presentable. It’s a forum. Original research published here doesn’t get its own article page for easy reference. Formatting is very limited. You’d honestly be better putting fresh content onto a blog.
That’s not to say there’s no value to this place. It’s good for discussing things. It’s good for preparing collations of ideas for use as copypasta in other places, or for practice explaining things.
Thanks and I agree for the most part but so long as the format allows easy linking to sources I don't really see much of a difference. Not to mention that driving traffic here can only be a positive.
Credibility is a huge part of what makes for successful reporting that gets widely shared. Sure, some Reddit posts eventually become news stories, but they only reach a larger audience after being picked up by an institutional source or twitter account with a huge following. You'd be better off publishing off-site and linking here, I'd imagine.
Turns out I've actually got a twitter account that has more than a few big followers. I've been sort of trying to put the pieces in place to launch something like this for a while now.
Edit: And I'm not trying to profit off this shit I'm cool being a grocery clerk I just want to help the revolution I'm doing all this just because I want to instill some fucking meaning to my life.
Nice! Who would you consider good indie journalists that are relatively early in their career, or what are your favorite media platforms that give young journalists a shot? Also, would you actively turn down paying work, or is remuneration for your labor not a priority right now?
Garrison Davis is one for sure. He's been out there getting fucked up by Portland police and doing top notch protest coverage. Edit: He's at most early twenties and out there getting tear gassed every night to bring us news of what's actually happening in Portland for the last two months.
As for getting paid I wouldn't turn down a paycheck, no but I'm also not looking to make a career our of it. I just want to use what few skills I have to help boost leftist voices in whatever way possible.
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Lol
I am baffled why that name was picked in the first place.
It's not great but its what the people chose
Down with the people
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Chapo News Room.
For real though those are all good ideas. We need to build parallel power structures and that means not just feeding and providing clothes and shelter to those in need but creating more alternative news sources and media outlets. There can never be too many.
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Not to mention links to "Chapo.Chat" don't set off anti-communist alarm bells (yet).
As much as we like to think hardly anyone would ever recognize this site for its actual origins.
Edit: in conclusion we must start posting insightful OC in the c/news threa.
Heads are telling me outrage rules as the despot strategy of interwebz "" engagement" " and hopefully a new thread about this will pop up before I get the requisite upbears to do it myself