Are Doing Else News Today

organizations or social media machines? >> well, i love that you guys do the local papers. i love that you do that because the stuff that we should care, where we should place most of our energy and our concern is on the things around us that we can fix, that we can do something about. the collapse of the local news industry 2005 and beyond was deeper, broader, and more devastating than any of us new at the time. my career tracks along with this stuff. i started right at the end where ...

Says the country is going to die because of strangers in a different part of the country that you never met are doing else, that leads to despair and one of the biggest problems, people just tune out. pew tells us 15% of all americans did not consume any news from any source at all in the previous week. that is a bad sign because to be good citizens you need to be informed citizens. >> and the decline of local reporting. the new book, "broken news: why the media rage machine divides america and ...