Powerless in the Heart of Northern California Blackout Country: As horrific wildfires burn to our south, PG&E has turned the power on here long enough to grind coffee, warm up the house and send out tomorrow’s WORD before the blackout returns overnight through Wednesday. I think I’ll send you all the WORD now. Good night, and think enlightened thoughts. See what I did there?
“This is the
first presidential election happening after the business model for journalism collapsed.
Advertising revenue for print newspapers has fallen by two-thirds since 2006.
From 2008 to 2018, the number of newspaper reporters dropped 47 percent. Two-thirds of counties in America now have
no daily newspaper, and 1,300 communities
have lost all local coverage.”
—Matt Stoller, fellow,
Open Markets Institute, “Tech Companies Are Destroying Democracy and the Free Press,”
New York Times, Oct. 17, 2019.
• Editorial Comment: Without newspapers, will we even notice Campaign 2020?
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