Indybay Denied BIO Credentials

Just replace "activist point of view" with "right wing point of view", and IndyMedia does the exact same thing on it's website.

A website is not a converence. A website is news media. A conference is a newsworthy event.

Apple, meet orange.

I would not place Indy-anything in the category of ‘press,’ ‘journalist’ or ‘media,’ not by a long shot. With a pre-determined perspective, it would be foolish for a press officer to expect that there would be anything close to journalism being done with such a credential.

Face it, you don’t like the bio-tech and wanted to get a pass to find things that supported your predetermined point of view. How helpful is that? Not very, unless you are in the think-a-like club on the issue, which you really don’t need any new information from your own perspective.

So, chalk this up as a victory because it goes along with the narrative that you are being targeted for your ‘struggle,’ ‘resistance’, or ‘telling the "truth."’

Chris, I would agree with you, however, the corporate media also has a pre-determined point of view. The only news organizations that are going to get press passes are the ones that generally have the pre-determined view that biotech is all good.

Huh, I volunteer with indymedia and I'm not opposed to biotechnology. So far, I've been covering Reclaim the Commons. I'd cover BIO 2004 if credentials were more forthcoming. Luckily a small number of independent journalists have been able to get credentials, so we should see some good reports from inside the halls of BIO.

Thanks for the heads up, I'll be sure to keep them at bay! They will get to observe and their questions will go unanswered

Still though, you're the last guys on earth I'd imagine complaining about being denied. The original comment said "Objectivity is an illusion!" in a sarcastic manner, but that very much defines the fundamental rules of this website. You can't be objective here.

We'll tell our side on our websites. You tell your side on your websites. That is freedom of speech. When you hijack our bandwidth to tell your side, that's freeloading parasitism.

Pay for your own bandwidth, you parasite freeloader. Stop sucking on ours.

Yes, but how do you understand the other side if you just take part in a one-sided circle jerk?

All I'm saying is that it's funny that you guys complain about free speech and "objectivity". Constantly. But the rules here themselves dictate extreme censorship about ideas.

Maybe you should open up your mind to some other viewpoints for once, instead of sheltering yourself on a website that is filled with lies about opposing groups.

And we don't just tell our news on our website, what the hell would be the fun in that? That would get stale in seconds, just having a bunch of yes-men. We're not a hivemind, we all have different opinions. We even have a bunch of communists and even a few of the protestors we met on March 20 posting their ideas on our forum.

So jeez, would you come up with a better excuse than the bandwidth? Which shouldn't even be an issue because this is the INDEPENDENT media?

Once again Indybay makes a mountain out of a molehill and they figure that if they whine and cry instead of actually doing something the right way, they should get what they deserve. Its a symptom of being raised in an environment where they scream and their parents give them what they want.

The rules for the Bio 2004 media credentials are pretty clearly stated on the site:
"Only reporters and editors working full-time for print, or broadcast news organizations may register on site with valid, current media credentials (i.e. official picture identification from the employing news organization). Without proper, approved credentials, on site media registration will be denied. Freelance journalists, college publications and Web-based publications may not register on site at the conference."

So, yes. For a conference where anti-civilization derelicts threaten the lives of people who may or may not be doing anything morally wrong (many who are doing research that benefits us all), you can't sidle in with a college or website "credential" and expect to be treated like a real journalist.

I personally know severla leftist journalists or people who are opposed to biotech in some way who got credentialed for this conference. Its because they work for real newspapers or media outlets, not a sloppy website with mis-spellings and inaccuracies.