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Structure Proposal; Organization of Independent Media
Topic Started: Aug 30 2016, 02:16 AM (815 Views)
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Dear fellow Media Managers and Editors,

It is my firm belief that Europeia's independent media outlets would be best served by being 1.) completely separated from the auspices of the Ministry of Communication and 2.) Having a more structured and collaborative format.

As such, I propose the following for your input and consideration:


1.) A Director of the OIM that will oversee the approval of new media outlets, maintain the LethnoMonarchy Media Center by ensuring that media outlets are active and in use, and help coordinate between the media outlets in providing quality content to our viewers.

2.) The OIM membership will be opt-in, but only members of the OIM can stand for or vote on the position of Director.

3.) The Director can not be the current President, Vice President, or Minister of Communications as to maintain a focus on the independence of the Media and entrust that it is not beholden to the whims of any current Administration.

4.) That OIM members will endeavor to cooperate and work together where it is practical to provide superior quality content vs. multiple uncoordinated presentations, such as polling.

5.) The OIM and its membership will actively promote interest in journalism and provide a fostering atmosphere for such.

6.) The OIM will have a discussion channel, such as is possible on Discord, to easily facilitate discussion and creativity among its membership and so the Director can notify OIM members of important news.


If the Media Outlets and Editors are agreeable to such actions, once we are in agreement, we can petition the Government and Forum Administration to coordinate the new dynamic.
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I'm not sure that I agree with #1, but the other points seem like good ideas.
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Well, it's a decent idea but umm..
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help coordinate between the media outlets in providing quality content to our viewers.

You can overview the outlets and you can moderate them. But if you try to control what these outlets put out, we have an issue. Especially if you're trying to fit your own ideals of what "quality content" in euro is. Arguably, everything has good content. Who are you to say what is good and what isn't?

But besides that, I like what you are offering. Just don't turn the outlets into your own little finger puppets :P
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I liked the idea of co-ordinating polls. Maybe we will only have fifty polls each election season, instead of four hundred?
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help coordinate between the media outlets in providing quality content to our viewers.

You can overview the outlets and you can moderate them. But if you try to control what these outlets put out, we have an issue. Especially if you're trying to fit your own ideals of what "quality content" in euro is. Arguably, everything has good content. Who are you to say what is good and what isn't?

But besides that, I like what you are offering. Just don't turn the outlets into your own little finger puppets :P
I don't feel that was the implication there at all, that the OIM would dictate what can and what cannot be posted. Only that it would be better to work together as media outlets "where practical" to provide what is hopefully a better and more successful product. I would be staunchly opposed to any kind of hard rules on what the OIM would consider acceptable content. To me, that is the readers' choice, quite simply, if the content sucks, they won't read it.


At Anumia, the Director would be mostly a custodial position of actions currently handled by the Minister of Communications. Still, it's helpful to have a position of some minor authority to occasionally help steer discussion without membership feeling obligated or beholden to take such actions.
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I don't mind the idea of having a Director really; I'm just unsure about putting them in charge of newspaper acceptance/archival, when we have never really had an issue with MinComm/MinCult/whoever in Government handling it.
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Because its independent media. Under the Ministry of Communications, we are at the whims of the Government. Sure, no one has ever mishandled the responsibility but it also isn't one that Comm Ministers give almost any focus too. Also, by having it under government control we have run into complaints of bias when a paper has been archived even though it may have well been a while since it was posted in. A OIM Director that is answerable to the editors and media outlets and that is, more importantly, consistent in warnings about inactivity and archival is superior to the current status quo.
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I do not really think we are "at the whims of the Government" as you say. To my memory, there has never been a time we have seen abuse by any government figure in terms of the media, meanwhile the OIM has done almost nothing/been almost entirely inactive for most of its lifetime. Moving a function that was handled perfectly well by MinComm to such an organisation before it has proven itself active or effective seems like it might not be the best idea, and not all private media outlets will necessarily join the OIM anyway.
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I have to agree with Anumia.
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I don't mind the idea of having a Director really; I'm just unsure about putting them in charge of newspaper acceptance/archival, when we have never really had an issue with MinComm/MinCult/whoever in Government handling it.
This is my feeling as well. The rest is fine, for reasons stated by others, and me, in the GH thread on the subject.
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Nor have we seen an Administration or Communications Ministry that has truly served the need of private media. Most importantly though to me, is that it should be private media and not an arm, even if it's benign, of the government.

Maybe, just maybe, if we held the Comms Minister or a responsible deputy to task on maintaining the LMMC, I would find it mildly acceptable. Not ideal and I strongly believe it leaves private media as disparate units and weaker because of it. But, at least we cold potentially maintain a standard set of operations.

Also the OIM hasn't thrived as an institution because it was not set up to be one. It was at best a loose confederation of media outlets with no established agenda, goal, or hierarchy. I'm saying that we can all work together to change that. But, if you're fine with the status quo.... well, in any case I will continue doing what I can for private media.
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But, if you're fine with the status quo.... well, in any case I will continue doing what I can for private media.
Um, okay? No need to be all dismissive when the general response to this idea has been positive, and it's only a very narrow critique on the program that most of the people in this thread have had. As the related Grand Hall thread has also shown, there are a fair amount of news outlets behind this general idea.

To further expand on the reason I am against the OIM being in charge of archival and application because that would be a pretty big conflict of interest. Private media mostly competes with private media, if anyone truly competes in the media space. It is far more likely for the OIM to abuse this power than a mostly neutral Minister.
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I recommend that the Director be the advocate to the Government on behalf of private media.
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If there's a strict set of rules (archival only after X amount of time) and the Director would be elected by members of the OIM. If there was abuse of power, we DO have courts you know. ...

Also, "approval" only in that the Director is the one that would post the request in the Admin Task Thread (like the MinComm does currently) most definitely not a debate on the worthiness of the outlet. As I said earlier, the readers will take care of that on their own by just not viewing or responding.
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Nor have we seen an Administration or Communications Ministry that has truly served the need of private media. Most importantly though to me, is that it should be private media and not an arm, even if it's benign, of the government.

Maybe, just maybe, if we held the Comms Minister or a responsible deputy to task on maintaining the LMMC, I would find it mildly acceptable. Not ideal and I strongly believe it leaves private media as disparate units and weaker because of it. But, at least we cold potentially maintain a standard set of operations.

Also the OIM hasn't thrived as an institution because it was not set up to be one. It was at best a loose confederation of media outlets with no established agenda, goal, or hierarchy. I'm saying that we can all work together to change that. But, if you're fine with the status quo.... well, in any case I will continue doing what I can for private media.
no... Comms is vital to the private sphere. Comms has, for example, published vital polling data and asked private media to interpolate and extrapolate it; interpret it. There is also media using mixlr, which is entirely under the purview of comms. I think you are deeply misunderstanding private media not being the -focus- of Comms, more or less not being involved in any vital manner, as somehow being counterproductive to Comms. It should also be noted that Comms is not "mediating" any private content to see if it favors the administration, which would be one of the few definitely detrimental powers Comms could do.

Comms and the OIM Director should have a role together, not as one and the same, but it is easy for them to coordinate events together, create a general agenda, and expand outward.

If you think Comms "corrupts" private media now, than that is silly. Comms does not mediate media, at least not newspapers, as they are more vested in three things: dispatches, mixlr, and EBC articles. Mixlr is the closest to affecting content, and even then Comms has been very willing to allow any content.
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