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“America should spend billions to revive local news”
by Perry Bacon Jr., Washington Post
October 17, 2022

A vision for addressing the huge decline in local journalism by hiring 87,000 new journalists—100 reporters for every Congressional district in the U.S.—with about $10 billion in government funding.

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Diana Tittle
Diana Tittle

Diana Tittle, a member of the board of Sierra County Public-Interest Journalism Project, was the editor of the Sierra County Sun, the Citizen's precursor. A former resident of Truth or Consequences who now lives part-time in northern New Mexico, she spent her 42-year professional career in Cleveland, Ohio, where she worked as a newspaper reporter, magazine writer and editor, book author and publisher and publishing consultant. She is the recipient of a Cleveland Arts Prize for Literature.

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  1. ” Some journalism should try to reach people of all parties and ideologies. I am not sure whether any news organization or individual journalist can be truly objective, neutral, balanced or whatever word we are currently using for the kind of mass audience news that PBS, NPR, The Post and other such organizations try to produce. ”

    I read this article and was surprised the Telecommunications act of 1996 and the following media consolidation wasn’t brought up at all. i think by breaking up some of these international, big money mergers which own small town outlets and nat’l media alike, i think that’d go a long way in enhancing the quality of journalism we see. Then I read that quote I attached above and realized the author is simply preaching to a very small choir.

    Billions of money from the feds to promote journalism at a time when the federal gov’t is also being brazen enough to claim it has authority on the ‘truth’. We saw thru the covid mess that individual, citizen journalists were being shut down and in some countries (like Germany) even being jailed for speaking a truth that went against the gov’t narrative (which, coincidentally, was in the best interests for the profit margins of pfizer and moderna, can you say fascism, anyone?)

    the problem with journalism isn’t that there aren’t enough. It’s that they are consistently getting de-platformed and censored, in an internet age when we’re supposed to have protections in section 230. look at the strikes on Dr. John Campbells youtube site, look at the imprisonment of Julian Assange! The demonetization of Jackson Hinkle, Kim Iversen. These are popular media figures with large audience, but because they speak against one of the ‘industrial complexes’ (military industrial complex, pharmaceutical industrial complex)- they are silenced by private companies like Twitter, Facebook, or Youtube, at the behest of the federal gov’t. That’s the problem in journalism. The fact the Wapo doesn’t even bring it up is honestly not surprising.

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