No one actually wants to pay for investigative journalism, or news content in general. I wonder if a Puna lobbying organization existed and produced pieces on our way of life and issues affecting us, might the TV stations just air them? Maybe we can use the greediness/laziness of the media to get our own agenda out there?
(Not that we could agree on an agenda, aside from not having astrologers on the evening news. Or that hippy dippy verbal diarrhea New Dimensions that comes on HPR on Sundays when I'm running trash to the dump....)
Some ideas for pieces:
- The time it takes an ambulance to reach someone in the substandard subdivisions
- Attempts by the county to erode property rights
- Code enforcement leading to homelessness not actually being better than letting people live on their own acreage
- The solution to homelessness (less regulation, more prefab homes, allowing new technologies, etc.)
- All the commercial land being owned by a few oligarchs and what that does to small business
- What it's like to live within your means in a home you built yourself, without a mortgage
- How much Foodland and Malama mark up their groceries, and who profits.
- The cost of gas that magically never goes down in Hawaii, and who profits.
(Not that we could agree on an agenda, aside from not having astrologers on the evening news. Or that hippy dippy verbal diarrhea New Dimensions that comes on HPR on Sundays when I'm running trash to the dump....)
Some ideas for pieces:
- The time it takes an ambulance to reach someone in the substandard subdivisions
- Attempts by the county to erode property rights
- Code enforcement leading to homelessness not actually being better than letting people live on their own acreage
- The solution to homelessness (less regulation, more prefab homes, allowing new technologies, etc.)
- All the commercial land being owned by a few oligarchs and what that does to small business
- What it's like to live within your means in a home you built yourself, without a mortgage
- How much Foodland and Malama mark up their groceries, and who profits.
- The cost of gas that magically never goes down in Hawaii, and who profits.