Letter: Legislation is crucial to the future of local journalism in North Dakota
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Speaking out: Legislation is crucial to the future of local journalism in North Dakota
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Here is how I often do it:
I’m scrolling on Facebook, and I see a tidbit of news. Sometimes it’s a link to a trusted news site, sometimes it’s not a trusted news site. Sometimes it’s a meme, or a photo of something that looks like a headline. Before I share anything, I need to know it’s true. So I google it. What I’m looking for in my Google search is a news source that I trust. And that’s almost always a newspaper.
Google and Facebook rely on newspapers and news media in general. They have become the great middle men in the way that we consume news, from the hyper local fire on your rural block to the back and forth of national discord. The trouble is, they’ve been syphoning off the advertising revenue that supports the local news they rely on. The snake eats its tail.