Talk about the dangers of media consolidation and these media conglomerates and how it's undermining right now our idea of what free press in this country should be. Well, We issued a report from the Commerce Committee about this a couple of years ago and basically it shows that as advertising got commoditized online, basically you have less and less revenue, less and less revenue streams for local journalism. But, but the public trusts local journalism. Why? Because you're not going to be on the air or you're not going to sell a newspaper if you're not accurate. (04:56–05:13)
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Asserts that a Commerce Committee report shows online advertising commoditization reduces revenue for local journalism.
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