Editors
Just to set the stage, what is the state of the news media in the United States today?
Robert McChesney
It is basically in free fall, and probably about a foot above ground, falling at one hundred miles an hour. It’s in complete disarray and decline. This is not a controversial point. This is not something that is debated. Everyone sees this. The data is overwhelming.
The way people measure journalism, especially local journalism, is through funding and revenues for daily newspapers. Even today, daily newspapers provide most of the original news reporting in any community. This data includes digital journalism, which is the direction all journalism is heading, if it is not there already.
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