Is the Demise of Local Media a Threat to Democracy?

There are other things that they could collect on you could think about I mean we've talked on this show about the massive decline in local media local news and how informed citizens are. The extent to which there is ideological heterogeneity and across different media sites it isn't just the number but the extent to which lots of people's views are represented would be a thing you would want to get data on any. There're two possibilities one is that the things that were raising up that one could conceivably measure but we just lack the data  that those things if we had the data would point towards decline That will eventually show up in the indices that appear in this paper, he says.