Is It Better to Have a Lot of Bad Media or No Media?

I don't know what the journalism landscape looks like in Montgomery right now, but I'm assuming that it looks like it does in a lot of places across America. There's no local reporting infrastructure in most of the country at this point. If there is nothing, if it's just completely disappeared behind these iron gates, you can't even read between the lines because there are no lines. And we underestimate the absolute terror to human rights and democracy that that absence of any local accountability whatsoever presents.