Yet the company relies on the labor of poor people in Third World countries - many of them women. Kilbourne said she envisions an ideal communication system which serves democracy by treating its audience like citizens, rather than consumers. Every city would have several papers, from several points of view. As it stands now, local coverage is largely neglected in the current news media offerings. What passes for news is all the same from coast to coast.
Most people are incredibly ill-informed about their local politics, and that's incredibly important.
Probably not many, because there isn't real coverage of these kinds of issues. Everybody knows every detail about O.J., and they know every detail about some murder that happened in the middle of the country, but they don't know who their school board officials are, or what the burning issues are in their own community. And that's because these newspapers are market-driven and they're owned by a few chains, which have no interest in local politics. They just are interested in selling lots of newspapers. WFP Collective, Inc.