Relevance to the Public

How do you define 'local relevance' when assessing news and culture?

How do you define 'global relevance' when assessing news and culture?

Perhaps you prefer to locate relevant information at its source rather than through the news media.

Where have you found public interest journalism of relevance to you over the past twenty-four hours, if anywhere? 

Who truly knows about relevance to the public?

Who truly knows about credibility, comprehension, veracity, sensitivity and usability in relation to the provision of necessary news?

What do you know about the Civility Party of Australia and how do you know it?

You may be aware that the party has no influence whatsoever in Australia, or anywhere else for that matter.

But why does the Civility Party, and civility itself, have so little influence in the world?

Quality news in the 21st century is associated with veracity, relevance, appropriate attribution and usability.   

How, if at all, have you been investing in civility, and where?

How have you been preventing incivility over recent months, and why have you taken that approach?

Perhaps you regard civility as the public interest.

Or perhaps you regard civility as irrelevant.

Providing appropriately timely information of urgent relevance is likely to be very much in the public interest, especially if it helps to thwart various forms of trickery.

How, if at all, do you support or oppose Civility Today?

How, if at all, do you support or oppose Trickery Today?

Trickery itself is obviously against the public interest. 

Yet warning the public about trickery is often relevant.

How do you prefer to inform yourself, and other people, about local events you consider to be both real and relevant?

You may assess the relevance of journalism in terms of geography.

You may assess the relevance of journalism in terms of integrity.

How do you identify great harm, and potential great harm, and report it to the relevant authorities?

What do you do when the relevant authorities do not care?

Who, then, pays the price?

Satire is necessary when people in positions of relevant power fail to take proper notice of proper journalism.  

You may assess the relevance of journalism in terms of meaningfulness.

You may assess the relevance of journalism in terms of emotional connection.

As public interest journalism is merely a research and communication practice, its practitioners can do little more than report facts accurately to a particular public in relation to ongoing events of relevance to that public.

But where is public interest journalism, and who benefits most from it?

And where are the legal and financial structures to support public interest journalism? 

How do you assess the relevance of history?

How do you assess the relevance of the future?

How do you assess the relevance of wealth?