How much does a Pike Market citizen make ?
The idea of democratic media stems from the belief that media is a vital part of a democratic society ; To therefore , if media is vital for democracy , democratic media argues that media itself needs to be organized along different lines to the existing forms ; The idea of democratic media is still in its infancy as noted by Carroll & Hackett ( 2006 where they term it ' democratic media activism ' however the idea does have older roots ; In ' Triumph of the Market : Essays on Economics , Politics , and the Media ' Edward S Herman wrote that democratic media was a condition of democracy ; The term has been used to describe a number of new media projects from Wikipedia to the Indymedia movement to describe how it saw itself ; Democratic media differs from similar ( and related ) concepts such as citizen media , media democracy and independent media ( aka alternative media ) in that it puts as much emphasis on the organization of the media project as it does on the content .