Letters to the Editor
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Importance of MSM
Glenn,
Another aspect of this story is the importance of the Main Stream Media, and the press itself. It is important that newspapers survive at some level to support the young reporters throughout our country as well as covering the local issues. A free press is a significant part of our democracy.
This is an obvious comment, but I think that it needs to be stressed that the NY Times, WaPo, LA Times and other newspapers need support when they do things right.
One of the things done wrong is to impose a business model with goals like 20% profit and use that to fire reporters and turn newspapers into packages for advertisement. That happened in my home town, Long Beach CA where the Press Telelgram is owned by a conglomerate and is now worthless. I live in Columbus Ohio and the local paper here, the Dispatch, has gotten better over the years. It still tends to favor Republicans, but it is a much better paper than the Long Beach Paper.
This excellent piece is about a great reporter and how she has been attacked by the right wing. She depends on the WaPo for the platform for this work.