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Ghosting the News: Local Journalism and the Crisis of American Democracy
Maybe someday
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Readers
38/100Critics
10/100Scholars
92/100Author:
Margaret Sullivan
Publisher:
Columbia Global Reports
Date:
July 14, 2020
Washington Post columnist Margaret Sullivan explores the closure of print newspaper outlets and the threat it poses to our democracy.
What The Reviewers Say
Ghosting the News, as the bearer of very bad news about the news itself, adopts an aptly funereal feel. But Sullivan—a media columnist at The Washington Post, a former public editor at The New York Times, and a longtime chief editor of The Buffalo News—is also offering an opportunity: to recalibrate our vision.
In Sullivan’s conversations across the country, readers told her they were aware of the problem — they saw local news as increasingly partisan or shallow. But they apparently hadn’t made a crucial connection: The decline in quality is due to the erosion of the industry’s financial foundation.
[An] insightful, sobering analysis of the modern news landscape.
Sullivan is the perfect person to diagnose the problem.
