Think Again: Good Journalism Is Not Free, and Somebody’s Got to Pay for It
Center for American Progress, November 24, 2010
By Eric Alterman
A genuinely diverse and democratic media based in communities of both concern and geography has the power to inform people of facts and evidence and enable them to form a powerful public voice to stand up to monied and other powerful interests. But we're losing journalists and investigative reporting at an alarming rate, and more foundations and universities need to step in to keep hard news from disappearing altogether.
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