Polarization Increases News Today

And tim snyder before them. good local journalism encourages good civics. >> yeah, thats right. theres actually a pretty big body of research at this point that shows that when a local newspaper vanishes from a community, voter turnout drops, polarization increases, misinformation proliferates. theres even some evidence that city budgets will balloon because theres less accountability for the dysfunction and corruption that can happen in local government. so what really happens is that these loc...