{"id":38095,"date":"2022-12-31T08:57:11","date_gmt":"2022-12-31T14:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=38095"},"modified":"2022-12-31T08:57:11","modified_gmt":"2022-12-31T14:57:11","slug":"saving-local-journalism-ctd-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2022\/12\/31\/saving-local-journalism-ctd-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Saving Local Journalism, Ctd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Long-time readers will recall my <a href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2021\/05\/23\/saving-local-journalism-ctd-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">occasional, but sincere, concerns about journalism&#8217;s faltering ability<\/a> to cover news critical to the health of the United States. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/media\/2022\/12\/29\/north-shore-leader-santos-scoop\/?utm_campaign=wp_post_most&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=newsletter&amp;wpisrc=nl_most&amp;carta-url=https%3A%2F%2Fs2.washingtonpost.com%2Fcar-ln-tr%2F38b1556%2F63af1f4fef9bf67b234002e1%2F59ee10d9ae7e8a504fd8ecd3%2F11%2F72%2F63af1f4fef9bf67b234002e1&amp;wp_cu=9055fac022b53fc12e7e48b712be9bf1%7C5C39B574A4EE418DE0530100007F3ABF\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">This observation<\/a>, from Tim Franklin, senior associate dean and professor at the <em><strong>Medill School<\/strong><\/em>, does nothing to reassure me that the problem is being resolved:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Franklin predicts that \u201cif we don\u2019t fix the crisis in local news, we\u2019re going to see more George Santos-type cases and instances of politicians going unchecked.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em><strong>Fox News<\/strong><\/em> has proven uninterested in the task, instead letting the <em><strong>Fox<\/strong><\/em> owners&#8217; lust for money and power dictate their agenda. It&#8217;s getting to be too late to return to the traditional journalistic models, and that may result in the loss of everything we hold dear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long-time readers will recall my occasional, but sincere, concerns about journalism&#8217;s faltering ability to cover news critical to the health of the United States. This observation, from Tim Franklin, senior associate dean and professor at the Medill School, does nothing to reassure me that the problem is being resolved: Franklin \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2022\/12\/31\/saving-local-journalism-ctd-3\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38095"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38097,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38095\/revisions\/38097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}