So interesting, I have been thinking about what does it take to reinstate a more ethical journalism that is in the service of people and communities. For what I understood within civil such journalism would be fuelled by popular favour, which is pretty much the same fuel of today’s journalism. It produces a bunch of gossip and sensationalism and journalists are forced to follow that wave. While popularity needs to have its role, I believe the necessary ground for a better journalism is basic income, that would allow journalists to have their hands free and work more from a spirit of service rather than pursue popularity at any cost or having to conform to the dangerous media oligopoly of today.

Concentrations of media power like the one we have today (90% of cultural industry in the hands of 6 corporations in US) should be banned. They used to be considered a lethal threat to our democracies. Today we don’t hear this anymore because it already happened… no entity should control directly or indirectly more than 5% of the cultural industry. Freedom of thought, even before freedom of speech, depends on it.