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The fight for Ukraine — and democracy

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

CHAPTER

Democracy Is a Struggle

I think the trump phenomenon made a lot of people in traditional media aware that factuality matters. I have this very old fashioned idea, which, you know, no one seems to share, that there has to be a renaissance of the locally produced factuality. This can't actually be solved from d c or new york or los angeles, that we have to find a way of funnelling money. Nd f, there's plenty of money to go around from thewe just tax social media. They wouldn't notice funnelling money to localities and subsidizing a commercial, or semi commercial, local reporting. That wouldn't be a panacea, but it would be a starting

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