[grc] Fwd: Webinar series on "Media reform to build democracy"

[Spencer Graves]

Hello, All:


	  Under what circumstances might you individually and collectively care 
to support a webinar series on something like "Media reform to build 
democracy"?  The email exchange below includes a reply from Dean Baker, 
co-founder of the Center for Economic and Policy Research and author of 
(2016) Rigged: How globalization and the rules to the modern economy 
were structured to make the rich richer.


	  I will plan to attend the "Radio For People Zoom Conference Call" 
this Tuesday and participate as seems appropriate to the discussion of 
"Trump Insurrection fallout".


	  If we are both creating and lucky, what we do in this area could 
contribute to congressional hearings that may lead to substantive media 
reform along the lines discussed in the email exchange below.


	  Comments?
	  Spencer Graves, PhD
	  Journalist, 90.1 FM, KKFI.org, Kansas City Community Radio
and
	  Founder, EffectiveDefense.org
	  4550 Warwick Blvd 508
	  Kansas City, MO 64111
m:  408-655-4567


-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: Re: Webinar series on "Media reform to build democracy"
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 2021 04:50:45 -0700
From: Dean Baker <dean.baker1 at verizon.net>
To: Spencer Graves <spencer.graves at effectivedefense.org>, Craig Aaron 
<caaron at freepress.net>, Julia Cagé <julia.cage at sciencespo.fr>, 
contact at unboutdumonde.org, Robert W. McChesney <rwmcchesney at gmail.com>, 
Daniel Kahneman <kahneman at princeton.edu>, Helene E. Wood 
<hwood at princeton.edu>, Siva Vaidhyanathan <sv2r at virginia.edu>, Penny 
Abernathy <pennyma at email.unc.edu>

Hi Spencer,

I'm open to it. Not sure there is a big market, but happy to give it a 
try. It is important.

Happy New Year,

Dean

On 1/8/2021 8:32 PM, Spencer Graves wrote:
> Hello, All:
>
>
>       What do you think about producing a webinar series on media 
> reform to build democracy?
>
>
>       I think we could attract a large audience to hear people like 
> Daniel Kahneman discusses the research in human psychology that 
> explains why people are susceptible to being criminally misled like 
> those who stormed the US Capitol last Wednesday and Robert McChesney, 
> Craig Aaron, Dean Baker, Julia Cagé, Siva Viadhyanathan, Penny 
> Abernathy, and others discuss what they think should be done.[1]
>
>
>       I've produced webinars like this before, posting videos with 
> transcripts to Wikiversity, inviting the world to comment subject to 
> Wikipedia rules of writing from a neutral point of view citing 
> credible sources, and distributed edited versions of the audio via 
> Audioport.org, used by the Pacifica Radio Network of over 200 
> community radio stations, most in the US but some in Canada and two in 
> Europe.[2]
>
>
>       What do you think?
>       Spencer Graves, PhD
>       Journalist, 90.1 FM, KKFI.org, Kansas City Community Radio
> and
>       Founder, EffectiveDefense.org
>       4550 Warwick Blvd 508
>       Kansas City, MO 64111
> m:  408-655-4567
>
>
> [1] My review of the literature on this is available in the 
> Wikiversity article on "Confirmation bias and conflict".
>
>
> https://en.m.wikiversity.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias_and_conflict
>
>
> [2] A Wikiversity article on "Electoral integrity in the United 
> States" includes 3 interviews totaling 91 minutes, which I cut to 58 
> minutes for broadcast on 90.1 FM, KKFI.org, Kansas City Community 
> Radio on August 13 and cut further to 29 minutes for distribution 
> starting October 8 via "Sprouts:  Radio from the grassroots", 
> regularly carried by roughly 50 radio stations.
>
>
> https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Electoral_integrity_in_the_United_States
>
-- 
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Senior Economist
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