Professor Thomas Patterson explains why bolstering local public radio stations could be the key to solving our local news crisis and saving democracy.
“If they are to serve the public interest, journalists cannot apply the ordinary rules for covering candidates,” writes media scholar Thomas Patterson. “They are reporting on a politician who regularly defies democratic norms and lies with abandon.”
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