To save local journalism, update the Public Broadcasting Act ...Middle East

During his time as the U.S. ambassador to France, Thomas Jefferson wrote that if he faced a choice between “a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.” Jefferson would be disappointed with today's trends. Increasingly, we are seeing government without newspapers, especially at the local level, where they are vital in informing the citizenry. Some 2,900 newspapers have closed since 2005. According to just-released numbers by the State of Local News Project the Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism,  an additional 2.5 of the remaining 6,000 close each week. The term “news desert” has bec

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