Democracy Wounded as Newspapers Cut Washington Bureaus

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Democracy Wounded as Newspapers Cut Washington Bureaus
      

The New York Times recently wrote about the shrinking Washington bureaus of American newspapers. Those that remain are drastically smaller.

Some of this is a result of the newspaper industry's worsening financial troubles. But some, too, is a result of a mindset by many newspaper companies to focus on the trivial, the distracting and the uncontroversial.

And citizen journalism is not an adequate substitute.
         

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