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Budget cuts, budget cuts: That's what got me laid off after 13 years of working at a public high school, and that's what may be cutting into the information we get about President Obama:
There is growing concern within the press corps that the result of all these cutbacks is less reporting about the president, coming from fewer and fewer sources. In its place, probably not coincidentally, come more shouting heads, meaning that citizens still hear and see their president constantly-- but with fewer facts attached.
The entire piece is here.
It's not only cutbacks that affect the facts-- or lack thereof-- we get. It's also the commercialization of the news, as I've written about over and over again. But now money is a primary factor, and we are getting our information from a smaller and smaller number of sources. If those sources are inaccurate, biased, and/or inept, that is a threat to our nation.
From what we're hearing, we are about to become even less informed than way too many of us already are.
An uninformed population is an uneducated one, and the results of that are evident at the ballot box. The inevitable end product of the chipping away at quality reporting is the erosion of democracy. We need to do our part by reading and watching and listening to many different sources of news.
Unfortunately, accessibility to good reporting opens another can of worms (read: net neutrality, paying for Internet news, taking the initiative to actually dig for more than one source, etc.).
And sadly, that's the way it is. Sometimes I wish we could go back to the way it was.
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