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[- The other side of San Diego - and other islands
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By amyalexander, Section whatever...
Posted on Mon Apr 14th, 2003 at 08:16:24 PM EURODISCORDIA TIME
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For the past year and a half, I've been based mostly in The Most Efficiently Run Big City in California. It's got quite a reputation, alright... and its public persona for a gentle mix of conservatism and downright blandness comes not only from its status as a beachy tourist trap + retirement community, but also from its large military population. After all, if the city had a personality, who would come to Sea World? The local economy would crumble. The local mainstream media do their part to follow right along, with reporting that ranges from the astonishingly reactionary to the astonishingly bland. But, there's another side....
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Ok, so most people reading this already know about Indymedia. But somehow, living in a place like San Diego - a strangely isolated city (is it really a suburb of Los Angeles?) it's nice to just know that there is an Indymedia branch here. Not just for providing information and opinion and helping people organize, but psychologically. Wow, living here doesn't have to make your mind turn to mud? This place isn't entirely Stepford? There are in fact unwashed masses of dissenters here out on the street dissenting?
Not to imply that Indymedia is the only alternative media game in town - there are also a fair array of zines and coffehouse publications floating around as well, people posting flyers, and some pirate radio stations popping up now and again... but I can't link as easily to those, and i thought, Indymedia - as maybe the McDonald's of alternate media outlets in a city with a McDonald's-esque public image - could be a good place to start discussing the role of alternative media in places where "dissenting opinion" might otherwise appear to be an oxymoron...
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