Why not something like the nation. We could all write articles from different POVs and have backroom discussions on particular issues which it was felt required a more coherent line. I have been trying to get some of my left colleagues up here to give up on the lefty paper and move to an ezine format. The first step would be to get a layout togeather and an editorial board and then start filling in different writers for different sections.
> At around 31/10/06 9:17 pm, Julio Huato wrote:
> >
> > As to ravi's comments, I wonder what the role of the dead-tree part
> > is. Isn't it all about aligning reporters (with cameras) in many
> > places (able to "wire" their stories), editors, opinion writers,
> > desktop publishers, ad sales people, and some kind of management?
> >
>
> You are quite right. I was continuing my joke ... which was that the
> biggest problem would not be the above but getting LBO members to sit
> down together (virtually or in flesh and blood) to put some thoughts on
> paper.
>
>
> > Doesn't computers and the web make it all easier? How about a The
> > Nation Daily? Or a The LBO-Talk Journal?
>
>
> I would think some aspects of communication, collaboration and
> publication will indeed be made easier, but not the beat stuff as you
> point out. By pointing to The Nation I assume you mean an opinion journal?
>
> --ravi
>
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