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Local news is a public good: it benefits all of us more than consumers are willing to pay for it. (How many substacks/news sites can you justify subscribing to? And people on bluesky are in the 1% of the public most engaged w/ news) We can't rebuild local news w/out public intervention.

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social

At an invitation-only gathering in Italy, white supremacists mapped out strategies to target rural America while local press coverage vanishes www.confrontthehate.com/p/white-nati...

Mark Histed

@markhisted.org

As @deanbaker13.bsky.social has been on for years:

Dean Baker@deanbaker13.bsky.social

I know that whining is the standard reflex, but we could try to do something about the death of newspapers cepr.net/publications...

cepr.netThe Rich Control the Media: Whining Is Not a StrategyCBS’s decision to pull a 60 Minutes segment highlights how wealthy owners shape media coverage and silence dissent under Trump.

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Mark Histed

@markhisted.org

20 Aug

And this matters for science: because the decline of local news is harming democracy — those rightwing white supremacists see a political opportunity in the death of local news. And also fundamental science is a public good as well, and that's why public investment has built US science.

infotimes.usBasic Science Is The Foundation Of Future CuresInjecting partisan politics into American basic science would be terrible for the US: for the economy, and for development of future treatments for diseases like schizophrenia and Alzheimer's.

Scabby Don't

@generalmonkey.bsky.social

20 Aug

A press subject to investors' whims is not free. Community-owned press, editorial decisions made democratically by the journalists who work there, is free.