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The Future of News and Its Frenemies
Truth on the Market
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The local news business has spent the past two decades being “saved” by people who mostly seem to want it embalmed. Every new shift in how Americans consume information—websites, social feeds, newsletters, podcasts, short-form video, artificial-intelligence summaries—gets treated less like evidence of adaptation than proof that civilization will soon forget how school-board meetings work.
That anxiety is understandable. But preserving the old delivery system is not the same thing as preserving journalism.