Our right to a free press is meaningless if hedge funds can gobble up and gut the community newspapers that exercise it.
A two-panel cartoon I recently saw showed a character with a sign saying: “First they came for the reporters.” In the next panel, his sign says: “We don’t know what happened after that.”
It was, of course, a retort to Donald Trump’s campaign to demonize the news media as “the enemy of the people.” But when it comes to America’s once-proud newspapers, their worst enemy isn’t Trump — nor is it the rising cost of newsprint or the “free” digital news on websites.
Rather, the demise of the real news reporting by our city and regional papers is a product of their profiteering owners.
View the complete December 2 article by Jim Hightower on the AlterNet.org website here.