News of local media's 'death' is exaggerated
According to New Yorker writer and Middlebury College Schumann Distinguished Scholar Bill McKibben, Vermont’s news-media glass is at least half-full (“How Vermont’s Media Helps Keep the State Together: Investigative journalism matters—and so does community journalism,” New Yorker, Sept. 14, 2022). According to VTDigger commentator Bill Schubart, who notes that he has chaired so many boards, Vermont’s news-media glass is at least half-empty (Oct. 23, 2022). Neither mentioned that VTDigger employs regional reporters throughout Vermont. Questioning new American and Vermonter Paul Belo...
Source: vtdigger.org
