Jac on Nostr: Fewer people run for office after a local paper goes down and the cost of municipal ...
Fewer people run for office after a local paper goes down and the cost of municipal financing goes up – apparently you don’t care as much about the kind of deal you get if no one is reporting on it. I spoke to a city councilman who saw a marked difference in the behavior at meetings when a reporter stopped coming; people started saying and doing things they never would have done with a reporter present. The quality of government goes down. ~Andrew Yang
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