Maybe we need papers after all...
Even public officials are starting to think that a future without local newspapers and their scrutiny of government and other communuity affairs would not be quite the unalloyed pleasure for them that they may have dreamed about. And taxpayers must be starting to fear that their interests will be eaten and left as bleached bones in the sun after the nosy local papers disappear.
Who would then be left to watch the politicians, the civil servants, the local businessesspeople and other movers and shakers -- the unpaid blogger in pajamas?
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3 comments:
On the other hand, without spending tax-funded time on calls from reporters, city hall may be able to get more work done!
5:28, your logic is positively mind-boggling. Not having to answer a reporter's questions about an issue of public interest just once will no doubt leave plenty of time for city hall to answer those same questions innumerable times from tax-paying citizens unable to read about that very issue in a newspaper which no longer exists. That assumes, of course, that the citizenry has the means to become aware of the issue at all....
Most of the public is not interested in issues unless work does not get done and the services are not there.
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