Media Democracy Day

October 21, 2002 6:16 PM

Media Democracy Day promotes a mass media system that informs and empowers all members of society. Media Democracy Day connects existing critical and creative media with active social movements, creating a coherent message for public attention and local and global action. It was October 18.
posted by botono9 (9 comments total)

So it's kind of like a newsfilter link, only three days past due?
posted by mr_crash_davis at 6:27 PM on October 21, 2002

[I]nternational efforts to democratize the media are now mobilizing for education, protest, and change

Great. So, along with mob rule in government, we can have mob rule for information transmission.

THe whole web site could have been much shorter, and more direct, if they just had the words "Think for yourself."

But that's not as much fun.

creating a coherent message for public attention and local and global action. It was October 18.

I'm going to go out on a limb, and, considering I've not heard of this until now, assume it wasn't a big success.
posted by Ayn Marx at 6:30 PM on October 21, 2002

If there's anything major media would work harder to ignore than Buy Nothing Day, I think it'd be this.
posted by trondant at 6:38 PM on October 21, 2002

mr_crash_davis: There was a Media Democracy Day in 2001. They are planning one for next year. It's more of an annual event than a "news item". I missed it and thought at least some MeFi folks would enjoy it.
posted by botono9 at 6:59 PM on October 21, 2002

Media Democracy Day promotes a mass media system that informs and empowers all members of society.

Yes, and their definition of empowerment seems to be excluding any alternative points of view. For an organization that supposedly promotes the free exchange of information, their links page seems humorously one sided.
posted by Beholder at 7:35 PM on October 21, 2002

You know, I was just thinking this morning (while skimming over an ad exclaiming 'October is ... Dental Health Awareness Month') how I wish there was a website where you could go to find a list of all these corporate and activist holidays, Awareness Weeks, etc. so I could find out just how many of them there are and how awful they get. Well, and so I could register a Metafilter Appreciation Day.
posted by boaz at 8:35 PM on October 21, 2002

Its always a lot easier to create some stupid website/day than it is to actually volunteer your time and actually DO some good.
posted by rosswald at 8:49 PM on October 21, 2002

You know....I was thinking about announcing my own national awareness day - "Fabian Socialism awareness day, during which all of the millions of Fabian Socialists in the US could discuss how best to bide our time before taking some sort of action. We could also discuss how, despite our quarrels with the US government, it might be expedient to throw the weight of our vast numbers behind the invasion of Iraq. But, Oh no! -- I had to spend the time laying marble floor tiles in the new bathroom. Maybe next year.

Seriously, though: I think there probably better ways of going about promoting media democracy......and I wonder about the "coherency" of the message.
posted by troutfishing at 9:06 PM on October 21, 2002

Media Democracy Day: Where the ignorant can truly shine - the truest measure of democracy.
posted by mrmcsurly at 7:26 AM on October 22, 2002