We need media not controlled by billionaires..

Well…do you ever miss just reading a good newspaper? When I was growing up, even in the medium sized town of Grand Rapids, we had two full fledged newspapers that we staffed for local, national, and world news and only cost a quarter with the huge Sunday was only 50 cents…and both papers were worth the money and supported hundreds of good jobs for both reporters and production staff…that began to change when venture capital, supported by billionaires started buying papers across the country and the need for huge profit to pay them back started the inevitable slide that is still happening today…cripes, back then we even had a little paper called the “Suburban Life” that reported on life in Ada, Lowell, and all of the other small villages around GR…but now? They don’t even print the Grand Rapids Press here anymore and the Sunday paper is now 5 dollars and it is about the thickness that the daily paper used to be…sure not worth it so I don’t buy it anymore…how the hell did the paper support hundred of jobs for 70+ years and now it’s essentially gone…it’s the billionaires, folks hoovering up all the cash in this country…but there is a movement starting to have taxes fund local newspapers across the country in areas where the news in print, tv, and radio is either owned by right wing billionaires or doesn’t even exist anymore…I for one would chip in for an independent newspaper here in Muskegon that actually paid reporters and printed objective, truthful news along with an opinion page that would be clearly titled as opinion…just like it used to be before the billionaires wrecked the whole thing…geez…

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