A "Call" for an elected Media

[swanlake]

A Call For An Elected Media

I was just contemplating the world medium and media and realized that the media etc, seems to wield a great deal of power and authority that is invested in a body corporate that is self regulated and unelected. This seems somewhat counterintuitive in a democratic civilization and process.

I wonder then if it might be advisable to consider voting for a media assembly structured somewhat like a government or parliament that could then accurately reflect the kind of information and direction that the democratic peoples desire and prefer and not one under the auspices dictated by government and corporate agendas. There would be limited terms where the public would vote anew.

How would they be financed. Well most people already pay a certain media amount for cable and such and this body could derive its existence in that capacity.
It would also have an opposition perhaps to present alternative views and make it accountable and scrutinized.

Anyway just a thought, as the present media seems to be descending into mixed messages, desperation, sensationalism and irrelevance.

A Global Citizen
Earth
2005

[swanlake]

Example Link = http://216.26.163.62/2005/ss_iraq_01_18.html

[swanlake]

Journalists are not entertainers. We are reporters. We are not here to win popularity contests. We are here to cover the issues critical to a democratic society. We have to pressure the media, to shame the media into going into these forgotten places where so many are sent to waste away in silence."
Amy Goodman, host of Democracy Now

Link = http://www.reclaimthemedia.org/

Link = http://www.commondreams.org/views03/1112-10.htm

[swanlake]

Independant TV ?

Link = http://www.iwtnews.com/

[swanlake]

Truth and the Internet
By Vinton G. Cerf

Truth is a powerful solvent. Stone walls melt before its relentless might. The Internet is one of the most powerful agents of freedom. It exposes truth to those who wish to see it. It is no wonder that some governments and organizations fear the Internet and its ability to make the truth known.

But the power of the Internet is like a two-edged sword. It can also deliver misinformation and uncorroborated opinion with equal ease. The thoughtful and the thoughtless co-exist side by side in the Internet's electronic universe. What's to be done?

Link = http://www.isoc.org/internet/conduct/truth.shtml

[jfuruno]

Truth and the Internet
By Vinton G. Cerf

Truth is a powerful solvent. Stone walls melt before its relentless might. The Internet is one of the most powerful agents of freedom. It exposes truth to those who wish to see it. It is no wonder that some governments and organizations fear the Internet and its ability to make the truth known.

But the power of the Internet is like a two-edged sword. It can also deliver misinformation and uncorroborated opinion with equal ease. The thoughtful and the thoughtless co-exist side by side in the Internet's electronic universe. What's to be done?

Link = http://www.isoc.org/internet/conduct/truth.shtml
Welcome to the wilderness of mirrors.

[swanlake]

Welcome to the wilderness of mirrors.

Nice metaphor there J.
I think I'lll keep it

Okay round up those mirrors there in a circle partners so
them aliens can't bust through our perimeter....
and throw me one of them there beers......
and is there anymore of them biscuits and jerky left

John Wayne.....

[pianozach]

A rather deep and complex subject and a rather extreme proposition.

I can see why it remained a mostly one sided conversation.

Perusing old threads sometimes raises questions that have no answers . . . Ed (Swanlake) suddenly stopped posting two years ago . . .