No. I'd say from personal experience that journalism is dead. I ran for elected office last November. I had a number of opponents. None of us got more than a pa

No. I'd say from personal experience that journalism is dead. I ran for elected office last November. I had a number of opponents. None of us got more than a passing nod in either (now only 1) local paper. Time and time again, the reporters covering the "beat" that this elected office fell under would call or send pages of questions about us, about our campaigns, about our goals if elected. Chatting with the other candidates, they, like myself, sent page after page of answers only to have everything truncated to $CANDIDATE is $AGE and works as a $JOB. Why should anyone have voted for any of us? The local papers chose not to let the voters find out. That's a major fault of the papers. If they're not going to bother telling the voters what's going on, then who is? If the local papers aren't going to bother covering a state-level race, then why are they still in business (one isn't) and why should we care when they go out of business?