The Internet has eroded institutional control over what ordinary people see as “news.” Corporate media are still thieves, but not as they used to be, while locals have been obliterated in print and online. Many struggle to keep the dream alive, but with significantly reduced staff and declining coverage, and now wealthy progressive foundations have come to the rescue.
MACDONALD: What Real Reporting Looks Like?
Way back when, GraniteGrok had a digital subscription to the Union Leader. For non-Granite Staters, this is the state’s largest (as in most widely circulated) daily print newspaper. Many years ago, it was the nation’s most conservative daily newspaper, but after William Loeb died, it modernized but didn’t change too much journalistically, not until after … Read more
