Currently, most places, the news is funded by ads, subscriptions or gov funded agency. So this idea would replace above with voters. Done via a change to the government system to have two people in same seat; politician and shadow politician (SP). Both paid positions but SP wouldn't have any power.
Pros:
- SP doesn't need to go back to full time job and wait for next election cycle.
- SP will continue to represent the leftover voters and question the politician. (Its beyond me why election systems do not allow representation for miniority voters. Ie win with 51% of vote, 49% voters are NOT represented by anyone??)
- Not biased towards companies, ad revenue, subscriptions.
Cons:
- Need to pay SP.
- Biased to getting elected.
Second idea: government site where anyone with ID can post news.
Pros:
- Free for citizens.
- Ideally, government won't take dowm articles. Just because anyone can post, doesn't mean no consequences.
> Its beyond me why election systems do not allow representation for miniority voters
Many election systems do. The systems used in the US and certain other poorly-representative democracies don't, and those states score poorly in terms of popular satisfaction with government compared to democracies with systems where minorities within constituencies aren't systematically excluded from representation by the structure of the electoral system.
Currently, most places, the news is funded by ads, subscriptions or gov funded agency. So this idea would replace above with voters. Done via a change to the government system to have two people in same seat; politician and shadow politician (SP). Both paid positions but SP wouldn't have any power.
Pros:
- SP doesn't need to go back to full time job and wait for next election cycle.
- SP will continue to represent the leftover voters and question the politician. (Its beyond me why election systems do not allow representation for miniority voters. Ie win with 51% of vote, 49% voters are NOT represented by anyone??)
- Not biased towards companies, ad revenue, subscriptions.
Cons:
- Need to pay SP.
- Biased to getting elected.
Second idea: government site where anyone with ID can post news.
Pros:
- Free for citizens.
- Ideally, government won't take dowm articles. Just because anyone can post, doesn't mean no consequences.
- Historical archive.
- Local news in one place.
Cons:
- Government need to pay for hosting and support.
- News Corp.