The Demise of Local Journalism in America (Community Matters)
Channel: ThinkTech Hawaii
Date: 2022-01-06

What Effect Does it Have on our Democracy.  The host for this show is Jay Fidell.  The guests are Brett Oppegaard and Tim Apicella.  

Brett Oppegaard, professor in the Journallism Program at UH Manoa, and Tim Apicella, ThinkTech volunteer journalist and show host, help us understand the causes and effects of the demise of local journalism.  Why is this happening, how does it affect public awsareness and public opinion, and politics in America. And how does it interact with the rise of social media, the survival of only a handful of dailies in the country and a handful of influential largely opinion-based TV and cable news channels.  And how does all of this affect and interact with the divisions in the country, the emergence of the right wing GOP and the visible failure of democracy.

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