Atrasado mas ainda a tempo (via Futuríveis):
Democracy can be saved - by following Ebay's example: How does a society ensure that its media is both free and honest, without degenerating into the kind of authoritarian control still favoured in many parts of the world? [...]
Geoff Mulgan, the Prime Minister's former policy supremo, provided an interesting answer: we should learn from Ebay. In an intriguing Demos pamphlet, which he co-authored with Tom Steinberg and Omar Salem, entitled Wide Open: Open Source Methods and their Future Potential he argues for an Open Commission for Accuracy in the Media (OCAM).
Its brief would be 'to promote accuracy across all mass media that are depended on by British citizens [not just BBC outputs]. One of its major tools would be a web-based open system listing journalists, publications, news channels and other websites which would keep track of formal complaints and rulings made by traditional adjudicators [like the Press Complaints Commission], complaints by members of the public who believe that a newspaper or broadcast report has been inaccurate, structures and tools to allow all parties involved in both types of complaint to submit evidence, to discuss and to escalate to adjudication panels'. [...]
In the beginning, of course, most professional journalists would ignore such a site. But after a few years, media employers might start to pay attention. And the public would have somewhere to go to besides Private Eye's Street of Shame column when they felt outraged about some journalistic excess or other.
