What the Death of Newspapers Really Means

People treat the death of newspapers as a matter of concern only to journalists. This could hardly be more misguided. Responsible journalism is the foundation of our collective ability to address our problems as a society: to improve "the common good." Almost all of that collective ability, historically, has come from newspaper reporting. As the then-wunderkind Walter Lippmann wrote in one of the most prescient articles ever, in a 1919 edition of The Atlantic:



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