whatever happened Indymedia Ireland?

crowdflash

Indymedia Ireland has really lost any credibility it once had. Decent, provocative content is hard to find, the turnover of articles is very low, and the it's a one trick pony now for the Rossport brigade. Save for Paula Geraghty's pics, it's on life support.

What happened? Did politics.ie make it irrelevant? Did boards.ie do make it a waste of space? Did blogging and Twitter make it irrelevant. Did they all get jobs? Or just tired? Did the removal of George W Bush (replaced by someone with the same foreign policy) take all the angst out of yoof journalism? Or did they all go to RTE (note this is different to actually getting a job)?

Pretty much indymedia.ie could be put out of its misery. Sad really.

The_Minister

They started removing dissenting comments which meant that they lost all credibility.

crowdflash

Do you mean politically dissenting type comments (as opposed to messers)? I do recall a mention of Richard Boyd Barrett would send mods apoplectic alright, but I thought that was fairly petty. The fractious Irish left, eh?

mikemac

If you visit a site like indymedia you know exactly where you are going, it's not there to mess

If you add a comment (and not a messing one) that goes against their views it'll be swiftly deleted.

I did this over that joyrider from Summerhill, Dublin who died in police custody and the family were granted an inquest.
If you did question the family, your post was taken down.

Don't take my word for it, find an article that interests you and you add your opinion

pog it

It was probably hard for them to keep doing it full time. I mean how much money could they have possibly have been making from the site? There aren't enough people to read that type of news to make it a business.

jocmilt

The_Minister wrote: »

They started removing dissenting comments which meant that they lost all credibility.

I agree but it went further than that. Articles would be posted by a person on controversial topics, ususally anti-Iranian or 'gay' issues, and then the same person would moderate the comments on their own articles. I could give many specific examples of this but I'm not sure if I should. In fact I am speaking about mainly one character here who is a fellow traveller of the Communist Party of Great Britain. This patsy for the commies single-handedly destroyed the credibility of Indymedia, in my opinion. I was subscribed to their moderator comments email list so I got to see the emails from contributors who had quite legitimate comments removed by the patsy. His reasons were quite frivolous and if a poster persisted in their complain the 'Committee', when it got around to it, might reinstate the deleted comment but who is going to go through all that too often?

Here's one complaint from a poster who repeatedly tried to bring attention to the fact that articles being posted on Indymedia were coming from a woman in Scotland who was being paid by BAE Systems and as such had an axe to grind against Iran. The HOPoI he refers to is a group of mainly British Communists who attack the Iranian Government in whatever way they can. Some contributors felt, as I did myself, that Indymedia through their patsy had become little more than the personal propaganda space of the CPGB. Here is what R.G. wrote;

"I am now demanding that the board acts to prevent the BAe agent P** C******* from moderating and interfering with Iran threads. I will not wait long because the matter is too important. You have been provided with enough evidence to show that Britain’s biggest arms manufacturer BAe is working through P** C******** to delete posts on the indymedia site that do not support the recent Iranian Green coup attempt. If I have received no satisfactory communication from the indymedia board within the next twenty four hours, I will be forced to conclude that the indymedia collective as a whole is working to the BAe/Hopi agenda."