A couple of months ago I was considering how you could open up the Press Complaints Commission. Two of the biggest problems with the PCC, as currently constructed are:
- that it will only accept complaints from a very small number of people. The majority of complaints are stopped at source.
- that mediated corrections (the majority solution) are rarely perceived to be commensurate with the original story
My solution was Digg meets Pledgebank meets the PCC. It goes as follows:
- You join the citizen media complaints commission. You pay, say, £5 a month to join
- Anyone can register a complaint with a piece of media coverage. The complainant makes their complaint and states how they want it to be addressed
- Members of the commission vote as to the most deserving complaint.
- The winning complaint gets all the money in the kitty to pay for publicity to rectify their complaint. This could be Google advertising, a billboard outside the newspapers, students paid to flyer journalists - whatever.
I've not been able to take this forward in 2008. So I'm asking for your help to finesse the idea, restructure it, mash it up - whatever. As long as you can commit some time to making something happen in this space in 2009.
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