1,315,007 @ 10:31 AM 2-22-19
Interesting - the Item seems to have backed off of Medford news leaving only the boot-licking Medford Transcript - a wholly owned subsidiary of Medford City Hall, Inside Medford/Medford Top 10 - another wholly owned subsidiary of Medford City Hall, and yours truly - the only indepdendent voice. Along with that is this spot on editorial that the local media is being swallowed up and disposed of.
A REAL KRAUSE WRITES ABOUT MEDIA
NOT A PHONY FROM CLEVELAND CALLING HIMSELF 'KEN MEDFORD'
THEN YOU GOT MIKE CARPETBAGGER ON THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE
A BUNCH OF PHONIES HELPING TO END OLD MEDFORD
State Rep. Lori A. Ehrlich fears for the future of the newspaper industry.
She is not alone. She said that since 2004, nearly 1,800 newspapers have stopped the presses. The carnage is not only measured in jobs lost, but in communities that are not being informed on issues important to them.
“Not everybody has the time to go to every School Committee meeting,” Ehrlich told Bob Oakes of WBUR’s Morning Edition Thursday.
Where else are people going to get this information if it is not conveyed in a local newspaper, she asks.
Toward that end, she and state Sen. Brendan P. Crighton have filed a bill that would authorize a commission to study the problem in hopes of finding a solution to what has become a growing problem: the acquisition of local papers by national chains that have turned around and gutted their newsrooms. https://www.itemlive.com/2019/02/07/krause-local-news-is-fit-to-print/
