<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
</head>
<body>
<br>
<blockquote type="cite"
cite="mid:42bc808f-a1ec-430f-8980-28f5c7e882f5@gmail.com"><br>
Anyway, this news is Good News to me:
<br>
<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.npr.org/2025/02/28/nx-s1-5312819/washington-post-bezos-subscriptions-cancellations">https://www.npr.org/2025/02/28/nx-s1-5312819/washington-post-bezos-subscriptions-cancellations</a>
<br>
<br>
And this news is also good:
<br>
<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/03/a-new-nonprofit-wants-to-be-a-soft-and-sustainable-landing-spot-for-local-news-outlets-in-transition/">https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/03/a-new-nonprofit-wants-to-be-a-soft-and-sustainable-landing-spot-for-local-news-outlets-in-transition/</a>
<br>
<br>
We need less bad, and more good, news.
<br>
</blockquote>
<p>I am chagrined (nod to Tom and his profession) to have been as
cynical about News as I have been in my life <br>
</p>
<p>Being seduced into voting for Reagan in my first presidential
election made my cynical about Politics which caused me to
withdraw for over 2 decades (didn't want to encourage the
bastards). I worked in <i>Radio</i> in my youth and came close
to switching from <i>Private Investigation</i> to <i>Investigative
Journalism</i> in the late 70s... but saw that it might not
have been any more rightous than the PI work (patently not, even
as I tried hard not to be unrighteous).</p>
<p>In my newly political era (circa 2000-today) I have become more
news-focused. Some of it is having more time
(faux/semi-retirement?) and some of it is letting broadcast media
into my eyes and ears (until mid 2010s) which I mostly avoided
(limited to occasional hourly news or a Democracy Now! episode on
radio). Now I probably watch several hours a day cumulative over
the day... read a few dozen short-form things, maybe a few
longer (1/2 hour) things. </p>
<p>In any case, I now highly value the "good" sources when/where/if
I can find and recognize them.... it is harder than ever (with so
many choices and so much sophisticated sophistry afoot?) but it
feels more important than ever. </p>
<p>Glad to see what is happening at ASU giving local news some safe
harbor in transition... I feel like we are in a socio-political
phase shift similar to that going into the Cenozoic?</p>
<p>mumble,</p>
<p> -Steve</p>
<p>PS> EricS monolog was very well articulated and full of useful
and subtle observations... thanks for that!<br>
</p>
</body>
</html>