Buzzards, Again.

“Horror is not too strong a word for how the news hit me. Alden Global, the most rapacious of the ownership groups currently wrecking local newspapers, wanted to buy my old paper, the Buffalo News. 

“When Alden buys a paper, the results are unfailingly negative for the community. . . . I knew this from years of covering the news media and from writing a book about the dire effects on our democracy when local news declines. 

“In short, we become more politically polarized and less engaged in our communities.”

—Margaret Sullivan, media columnist and author, “Ghosting the News: Local Journalism and the Crisis of American Democracy,” “Vulture capitalists are circling my old newspaper. Here’s why we need to fight them off,” The Washington Post, Dec. 16, 2021. 

• Editorial Comment: Anyone got any Buzzard Spray?

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