MSNBC's Melissa Harris-Perry on the Death of New Orleans Newspapers
In the latest Mediabistro interview, MSNBC host and New Orleans native Melissa Harris-Perry talks about the state of journalism and the decline of print. For her, the loss of The Times-Picayune is not just bad for the Crescent City, but bad for democracy, because “there have to be some spaces where we can say, ‘I believe that because it’s reported by that person.'” Below, an excerpt:
“I not only sometimes hear viewers’ angst about wanting journalistic reporting, I feel it myself as somebody consuming the news.
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