New Media Direction In America ?

The New Media Potential
What Could and Should Happen

 

We have seen the worst of the worst in media reporting prior to the 2012 elections in America. It is time for a change. The following will be done:

 

The sacredness of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution concerning “freedom of the press”, and its responsibility toward preserving our democracy will be reinforced.

 

We will visit colleges and universities throughout the country in order to found and install new schools of journalism, founded upon firm principles of true journalism, objective media reporting based upon truth and facts, full and unbiased coverage of all important news, and tenacious investigative reporting.

 

We will then found a new national newspaper called The American Free Press. This newspaper, in its’ charter, will clearly state that it will have NO allegiance to any political party, to any ideology, to any organization, nor to any person. As far as journalistic freedom, this will also disallow any undue pressure from any executive, manager, or editor of the newspaper.

 

We will then hire editors, reporters, journalists, and columnists, who as a condition of employment, must leave their own political, or ideological views “at the door”, with one exception that will be outlined below All relevant issues important to America and the world will be covered. Nothing important will be purposely left out or covered up. All news stories printed will be thoroughly and objectively researched; and based upon verifiable truth and facts. Any bias will not be allowed, and we will continually follow a policy to pursue purity of reporting to the extent humanly possible. One of the additional strengths of the newspaper will be hard hitting tenacious investigative reporting in order to get to the truth, and to expose corruption and wrongdoing….all based upon verifiable facts….wherever it leads.

 

The exception to the above will be to have opinion columns on important subjects, representing different points of view. Contrary points of view will always be present to any opinion article so that the reader can make up their own mind. The model that will be used is that which is similar to ballot issues when voting. For the most part, this is usually handled extremely well, presenting both sides of the voting issue, allowing the voter to decide.

 

The American Free Press, will as the name implies will be free to readers., no money will be charged for the paper. Funding for the newspaper will be entirely from contributions from people who believe in our purpose to bring the American people factual, verifiable, relevant, and objective news, without bias and void of propaganda. Contributions can be for any amount up to a maximum of $1,000. Any contribution of $500 or over will require the donor to sign a simple statement (provided in each paper) that indicates that the donor fully understands that they acknowledge that they will NOT receive any preferential treatment in the news reporting, whatsoever. There will be a maximum contribution level in any year up to $4,000 from any single donor.

We will have ongoing contact with the new schools of journalism that will be established at the various colleges and universities, with an opportunity for interchange between the students and faculty, as well as an opportunity for student co-op jobs while a student.

 

The American people are fed up with what they have been getting for news. The 2012 pre-election news given to the American people has been a disgrace to the profession of journalism, an insult to the First Amendment, and a threat to our democracy. It is also evident that corrupt polling has been used by some news organizations that attempt to influence public opinion, not measure it. Look for this to be addressed at a later time.

 

This will an exciting and much needed new direction for news in America.