The information you provided is not from Indymedia itself, it is a posting on the Indymedia open newsline. Anyone can post anything on the newsline. Try it.
I'm still doing searches. They are sharing independent reporters, pdfs, and translations.
Sorry. The little message blurb vs. an official press release is very telling.
Even reverse propaganda can have truth.
I hold to their intentional mislead.
http://www.indymedia.org/en/2004/03/110687.shtml
Indymedia.org team in merger talks with CBS/Viacom
George Soros, CEO of Indymedia.org ltd has begun merger talks with the CBS/Viacom News Network to help bring together the Vibrant Staff of the Independant News Network with the resources and Global Consumer Reach of the CBS news network. This follows a meeting of the IMC Board of Directors and key Indymedia shareholders where it was decided that Indymedia needed to branch out from its traditional Liberal readership demographic to encompass more mainstream news interests and readerships....