In the end, though, it’s not ‘local news,’ but local news in which the press scrutinizes local government, that truly matters. Print’s dying, and is so ill that it believes itself even too weak to reach for restorative medicine.
That medicine, of course, is news that scrutinizes politics and politicians, that speaks truth to political power….
Perhaps someone from print will summon the strength and will to extend an atrophied arm toward the nightstand, and grasp the medicine that offers, as it always has during centuries of liberty on this continent, a dependable cure.