Read this:
"Community media (like local democracy or genuine local co-operative and self-help enterprise) might well have the potential to transform British society for the better, but be sure that by the time it is rolled out and watered down as a government funded
local public service, the end result will ensure that real iconoclastic beneficial change is not a possibility..."
A Government funded local public service.
Quite a thought.
Actually why not ?
This period we are living through is a test: how much will we let
slip and slide and how much will we challenge and question and check and push ?
I read about the British Government's collusion with Indonesia's ruthless invasion of East Timor in the Seventies. US and British and Australian Governments knew what was happening and there was no media reporting at all about what was happening. None. Nothing.
We cannot depend on the media. They are doing their own thing.
For the moment the internet is the place where stories can and must be told.
This is in every way the new media, the new mainstream.
I will tell soon about a plan I am shaping for funding a large community media project across the UK. It's a long shot but I can see how to do it, if ...