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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 12/29/2016 2:17 PM, Spencer Graves
wrote:<br>
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I believe that for-profit journalism model threatens
humanity: Robert McChesney and others have proposed
citizen-directed subsidies for non-commercial investigative
journalism with transparent funding that puts everything they
produce on the web in the public domain. <br>
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My prospectus on this is available at
"EndowmentForJournalism.org". I'm looking for collaborators to
hep launch this initiative. <br>
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What do you think?<br>
Thanks, <br>
Spencer Graves<br>
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Spencer,<br>
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I come at this from 2 different viewpoints. The first is as an avid
consumer of news. Here I find myself thinking a lot along the lines
followed by NYU Professor Jay Rosen at <a
href="http://pressthink.org/2016/12/winter-coming-prospects-american-press-trump/">PressThink</a>.
Here Rosen outlines what he thinks of the current situation (bad) in
one post and then in a second on outlines the steps that he believes
must be taken to restore trust in any media, whether for profit on
not. Note: he does not consider his recommendations as a solution,
only as steps that might help media organizations uncover a
solution. <br>
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Secondly, I have some experience on the edge of political
journalism, assisting a high profile political candidate with media
relations and doing a bit on the edge of investigative reporting in
the same campaign. The reporting involved connections between an
incumbent candidate and Jack Abramoff. I can tell you that it is
damned hard work and requires significant financing to do this for
any long period of time. Along the way, I have developed a list of
reporters, writers, etc. that continue to do an excellent job from
within large media organizations.. The list include Chris Mooney
(Washington Post), Juliet Eilpern (Washington Post), Michael Doyle
(McClatchey Washington DC Bureau), Paul Rogers (SJ Mercury News),
Dave Roberts (once with Grist, now with VOX).<br>
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I have a lot of hope for <a href="httpsL//www.propublica.org/">ProPublica</a>
It is non-profit, but I am not sure about the bias of some writers,
especially Andrew Revkin whose work at the NY Times was at best
questionable in that his bias was never acknowledged but frequently
was visible in his choices. I felt that this was more Revkin
himself than NY Times editorial mandates. I make this point to
underscore the fact that being non-profit is a guarantee of unbiased
news. <br>
<br>
Wes<br>
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<div class="moz-signature">"Anytime you have an opportunity to make
things better and you don't, then you are wasting your time on
this Earth"
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