[grc] GRC 2021 !!!

[Spencer Graves]

Hi, Sharon et al.:


	  Earlier this evening the KKFI News & Public Affairs Committee 
discussed efforts to try to recreate in Kansas City, MO, or the KS-MO 
bi-state area the New Jersey Civic Information Consortium (NJCIC), 
documented in an interview I had with Craig Aaron, co-CEO of 
Freepress.net that was broadcasted on KKFI 2021-04-29.  A video with a 
transcript of that interview is available at:


https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Media_reform_per_Freepress.net


	  I posted a 29-minute condensation of that to audioport.


	  In brief, Aaron suggested we ask all kinds of people if they are 
concerned about the decline in local news and if yes what would they 
support to remedy the problems this is creating.  Within the past few 
weeks, I've sent emails to 22 politicians who officially represent me at 
the city, county, state and federal levels and followed up with phone 
calls.  Other members of this committee have contacted other community 
leaders.  The notes on what I've done are available at:


https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ycGmSdW12Hgk0EX955BXOAUCzQgBcmlnGSuvU2Kosfg/edit?usp=sharing


	  The NJCIC is funded at 6 cents per person per year in New Jersey, 
which is roughly 1 part per million of the Gross State Product of New 
Jersey.  With a comparable budget the investigative journalism 
organization amaBhungane forced the resignation of President Zuma of 
South Africa for political corruption.  By comparison, the US Postal 
Service Act of 1792 was funded at roughly 0.2 percent of the US economy 
(Gross Domestic Product, GDP), and McChesney and Nichols suggest that 
this subsidy made a major difference in encouraging literacy and 
limiting political corruption, both of which helped the brand new United 
States of American stay together and grow while contemporary New Spain / 
Mexico fractured, shrank and stagnated economically.


https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/The_Great_American_Paradox


	  I can discuss this via a Zoom meeting any time there is interest.


	  Spencer Graves
	  Journalist, 90.1 FM, KKFI.org, Kansas City Community Radio
and
	  Secretary, Friends of Community Media (ourfcm.org)
	  4550 Warwick Blvd 508
	  Kansas City, MO 64111
m:  408-655-4567 	


On 8/11/21 7:11 PM, Sharon Scott via grc wrote:
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> What have you learned during this pandemic?  What do you have to share 
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> conference this fall, The GRC Collective would like to know what you 
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