As the saying goes, WHEN WE FIGHT, WE…
…achieve some incremental progress!
That’s how we feel about the local news deal that was recently announced in California. Google agreed to put money into a special fund for local newsrooms, in exchange for the legislature nixing bills that would have made it pay even more.
To understand why it was less than it should have been, remember that the number of journalists in California dropped 68 percent in less than two decades, according to the Medill School of Journalism. That’s roughly 5,000 reporters gone, meaning more corruption, less accountability and more polarization.
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