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cgod · 4216 days ago · link · · parent · post: David Simon | The Koch brothers and The Baltimore Sun
This is a good piece and not really about the Koch brothers at all. My local paper is owned by a New York company. Over the years it has become a hollowed out piece of shit. After many rounds of layoffs the only good journalism is the sports page (and the living section, but I don't think any real journalism happens there). I don't blame the journalist, I'm sure they are spread pretty thin but I hardly ever read an interesting article without walking away with a several questions that a reporter who didn't have three beats and a fierce deadline wouldn't have answered. It's thin on investigation. The two competing weeklies pick up a lot of the journalistic slack but they are only weeklies, there is only so much news they are going to cover.