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Tiered Democratic Governance has four salient features: (1) tiered, indirect elections, (2) voting based on good character and competence for governance, (3) a culture of consultation, and (4) an advisory board to help elected representatives reach their decisions.

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Another Intelligent News Show

4 min readMay 10, 2025

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Screen shot from “About That” website

A recent article of mine described a better model of news reporting and how it related to the TDG. That show is called Inside Olympia and airs on the Spokane affiliate of PBS.

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) has created a new news show called About That. Journalist Andrew Chang explains complicated issues succinctly and pleasantly.

https://gem.cbc.ca/about-that-with-andrew-chang

While Inside Olympia is an elevated news program, it requires a relatively well educated audience to understand it. In contrast, About That is, I believe, more able to reach average people, while not dumbing down the content.

Format

About That is breaking two informal rules in political journalism.

The first rule is that there are no qualified experts. Andrew Chang is the only talking head. While he does not give the impression that he is the expert, his demeanor exudes a lot of credibility — at least with this viewer.

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Tiered Democratic Governance
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Tiered Democratic Governance has four salient features: (1) tiered, indirect elections, (2) voting based on good character and competence for governance, (3) a culture of consultation, and (4) an advisory board to help elected representatives reach their decisions.

Dave Volek
Dave Volek

Written by Dave Volek

Dave Volek is the inventor of “Tiered Democratic Governance”. Let’s get rid of all political parties! Visit http://www.tiereddemocraticgovernance.org/tdg.php

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