This is interesting:
“Ed Balls has called on councils not to undermine local media outlets by trying to compete for readers and advertising revenue with their own publications and websites.”
I wonder if Mr Balls has any plans to ask the local newspaper groups to pay journalists to cover local news with a bit of enthusiasm, accuracy [...]
Posts on ‘January 20th, 2009’
Local government information – squeezing out local newspapers?
The day democracy is celebrated everywhere
It’s not a question for today. The only reason I raise it now is because there are plenty of reasons to question the quality of liberal democracy found in the United States.
The pressure groups are immensely powerful. The constitution imposes boundaries upon the voters that many find unacceptable.
As the Democratic Society blog notes, free (as [...]
A blog about representative democracy, social media and a conversational politics. How will peer-to-peer communications change local democracy? How is representation changing? 
