In my opinion the best book on this topic which should be required reading for pretty much everyone is Flat Earth News by Nick Davies [0]. The book is nowhere n

In my opinion the best book on this topic which should be required reading for pretty much everyone is Flat Earth News by Nick Davies [0]. The book is nowhere near as sensationalist as the title implies. While focused on the UK I think the content is broadly applicable. I'm sure the full text is available online but there's an excerpt here [1]. Relevant to the article: "And the Cardiff researchers found one other key statistic that helps to explain why this has happened. For each of the 20 years from 1985, they dug out figures for the editorial staffing levels of all the Fleet Street publications and compared them with the amount of space they were filling. They discovered that the average Fleet Street journalist now is filling three times as much space as he or she was in 1985." He also talks in depth about the loss of local news. Unfortunately I don't have my copy to hand; but he makes a compelling case about the loss of court reporters and corresponding decline of democratic accountability and understanding of the justice system. [0]: https://www.flatearthnews.net/ https://www.flatearthnews.net/ [1]: https://www.nickdavies.net/2008/02/05/introducing-flat-earth-news/ https://www.nickdavies.net/2008/02/05/introducing-flat-earth...