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Well when the same people that own media companies are lobbying and bribing politicians to receive throwbacks, seems pretty logical they'd view people speaking

Well when the same people that own media companies are lobbying and bribing politicians to receive throwbacks, seems pretty logical they'd view people speaking about this freely and privately as a problem. The media doesn't work for us. It works for its shareholders and most media shareholders are pretty alright with corruption in government because they're part of it.

loceng 6y ago
It's why I am such a fan of Andrew Yang's core policy proposals including his "Journalism Dollars" - which I don't think he coined as such, but has a similar purpose to his Democracy Dollars: $100 every year for every citizen to allocate to a journalist of their choice. This would wash out the money received from advertising by the mainstream media channels, and so the narratives that are bought directly or indirectly and lifted up into mainstream via those ad dollars being spent/received - would open up to many more narratives with much more nuance to them, and stories that citizens actually care about; it's important for Journalism Dollars to exist with Ranked Choice Voting and Democracy Dollars as well - so it's not just the 2 core narratives of the duopoly of the two party system being perpetuated/promoted.
- EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK 6y ago
  All these dollars would go to a journalist who promises to give $50 back.
  - loceng 6y ago
    Easy problem to solve. You can implement mechanisms for integrity, e.g. whistleblower rewards for such behaviour.
    - EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK 6y ago
      Not an easy problem to solve.
      - loceng 6y ago
        Let's say you found out that someone was willing to give you $50 back if you give them $100, but then you also found out that there was a $100,000 reward for telling authorities about this scheme: don't you think at least someone will tell authorities about that scheme to get the $100,000 reward? Along with a sufficient jail time for the person/"journalist" running this scheme. And that's not even taking into account that we'd likely require a trail for accounting to know exactly where money went, so that it can't simply be "cash spent" to give back $50 untraceable to a bunch of people. Why don't you think that would work?

loceng 6y ago

It's why I am such a fan of Andrew Yang's core policy proposals including his "Journalism Dollars" - which I don't think he coined as such, but has a similar purpose to his Democracy Dollars: $100 every year for every citizen to allocate to a journalist of their choice. This would wash out the money received from advertising by the mainstream media channels, and so the narratives that are bought directly or indirectly and lifted up into mainstream via those ad dollars being spent/received - would open up to many more narratives with much more nuance to them, and stories that citizens actually care about; it's important for Journalism Dollars to exist with Ranked Choice Voting and Democracy Dollars as well - so it's not just the 2 core narratives of the duopoly of the two party system being perpetuated/promoted.

EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK 6y ago
All these dollars would go to a journalist who promises to give $50 back.
- loceng 6y ago
  Easy problem to solve. You can implement mechanisms for integrity, e.g. whistleblower rewards for such behaviour.
  - EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK 6y ago
    Not an easy problem to solve.
    - loceng 6y ago
      Let's say you found out that someone was willing to give you $50 back if you give them $100, but then you also found out that there was a $100,000 reward for telling authorities about this scheme: don't you think at least someone will tell authorities about that scheme to get the $100,000 reward? Along with a sufficient jail time for the person/"journalist" running this scheme. And that's not even taking into account that we'd likely require a trail for accounting to know exactly where money went, so that it can't simply be "cash spent" to give back $50 untraceable to a bunch of people. Why don't you think that would work?