How Online News Is Destroying Local Reporting
There’s been an explosion of online news reporting, but amid all this abundance, an extreme shortage is emerging. According to the New York Times, a recent federal study has shown that local reporting is suffering to the point that we are actually hurting democracy! “Coverage of state governments and municipalities has receded at such an alarming pace that it has left government with more power than ever to set the agenda and have assertions unchallenged,” the Times concludes.
The purpose of the study was to “assess the health of the media industry” and “determine whether government policies that affect the industry are in sync in the digital age.”
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