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Micah Sifry

Team Human

CHAPTER

Local Media

Clifford: In the glory days of, you know, mass media in America, there were local newspapers everywhere. But we now, many of us live in functional news deserts. And what counts as a local paper is actually a right wing giant with three local articles on the cover of a piece of crap. Cliff: I do see absolutely more now than a few years ago, more signs of local non-profit websites where people are just going, I can do this. It's not that expensive. Clifton: We have to decide that part of why everything feels disconnected and sucky is that parts of our infrastructure have been blown up. The news business being won, Facebook,

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