There was good take-up of the Media Democracy pamphlet - more than 30 copies sold to an audience of perhaps 100. I have seen the future of political education, and some of it looks a lot like the past ..
https://twitter.com/Chr1sR0berts/status/1052329641183248384
Selling a book for £10 or more is hard. A pamphlet for a pound is easy. You have to be a little shameless, and there is a certain amount of English reserve to get over. But if ideas are worth sharing, they can be made to pay for their own promotion.
Coming away from last night's event, there's a sense that the #mediareform agenda dovetails closely with Labour's ambitions to create a more co-operative and democratic public sector. And this can be brought into a useful dialogue with Green thinking about reviving the commons.
A media regime that is more open to general participation, and so better understood by the public, becomes a space in which we as commoners can better mobilise to defend ourselves, not least from the threat of environmental catastrophe.
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