I can't leave this topic without also noting another story reported by Democracy Now! the same day as its initial coverage of the Ferguson grand jury protests.
Instead of reacting to coups d'état, the group should examine all its members to monitor the quality of democracy, as gauged by free expression, the absence of corruption and the separation of powers.One report, "Democracy in the Commonwealth", reflects the passion of people who can tell good democratic systems from bad.
In a statement on the report Democracy 21 President Fred Wertheimer said, "The presidential candidate Super PAC exists for one reason: to serve as an arm of the presidential campaign for big-money donors to launder unlimited contributions to support the presidential candidate and thereby evade and eviscerate the contribution limits for a presidential candidate enacted to prevent corruption".
I may not be the first person to suggest that democracy has jumped the shark, but I think I am the first to report that democracy, having successfully jumped one shark, recently attempted to jump 100 sharks set on fire, crashed and is now in a persistent vegetative state in a teaching hospital in New Jersey.
Workshops for Tunisian journalists under the title "Reporting a democracy" will be conducted in Tunis by journalism academics from City University London.
Hagamos Democracia, or Let's Make Democracy, reported 600 complaints of voting irregularitities, and opponents of Mr. Ortega, 65, were quick to point out what they said were voting irregularities across the country.
Speaking after his appointment, Gen Prayuth asked the public to work with the authorities to restore democracy, reported The Nation.
Speaking at the same forum, David Holdsworth, the controller of English regions at the BBC, said: "The idea we might use some of the licence fee to fund reporters to report on local democracy for all comers is one I think we broadly agree on".
Four surveys published Sunday in Greek newspapers showed that the New Democracy party would again lead the anti-bailout Syriza party in the final results, The Associated Press reported, but that New Democracy would win enough seats in Parliament to create a coalition government with the Socialist Pasok party.
Falkvinge called for more positivity in the way technology's impact on democracy is reported, though.
