Local news crisis is destroying what America desperately needs: Common ground

I like the nonprofit model that was mentioned towards the end of the article. I think that has more of a future than the midsized regional stuff. However, I think that what's really killing the public press is citizen journalism and video evidence. You'll have press releases and news stories describing something, but your aunt has video of it. So of course, you'll just get the video from your aunt. At that point, who needs the press? And what do you need it for? Impartial analysis? We live in the age where Donna Brazille gets the questions beforehand from CNN. Nobody believes that anymore.

This is in part the Newsman's own fault. We are in an era of hellish clickbait, and utter partiality, and many have caught on to this. It is a second era of yellow journalism and sensationalism, except now the yellow press is free.

Odd that this article mentions non-profit journalism as if it's recently been invented. I've been cycling between local NPR stations -- KQED for my current home, KUT, WFIU, WNIN for my past -- for years. Even my parents, devout conservatives suspicious of public access as the haven of kooks and liberals (My dad would say: "isn't that redundant"?) have found themselves dialing in to get some information not shouted.

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