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That's not really fair (maybe you're joking and I'm just really obtuse)—she lives in a town of 5,000 people. Much larger markets than that have proven unable to
by realbarack 11y ago
That's not really fair (maybe you're joking and I'm just really obtuse)—she lives in a town of 5,000 people. Much larger markets than that have proven unable to support a local news industry in the past several years. It's not a better of journalists being lazy, it's a matter of there not being enough demand to support journalists in the first place. (As others have pointed out, this 9-year-old rightly lives with her parents and does not have to support herself.)
- 2muchcoffeeman 11y agoThis sounds like an idea. Get your local school kids to cover local news. A subscription would be fairly cheap since you don't have to really pay the kids a salary. And some of the kids would enjoy it and learn something.
- Grishnakh 11y agoYeah, like how to write well. Most adults these days can't seem to do that any more, so it'd be great to have kids learning this by being local journalists. Plus they'd probably do a far better job than adults since they'd be more idealistic and not lazy and not handcuffed by corporate interests.