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Mark Pocan: “They have eight or nine reporters for this, you know…”

Featuring: Mark Pocan, Democratic | U.S. House, Wisconsin, District 2

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Published | Video Starts at 28:24

Back home I look at you Know, the Capitol Times, great, I think, was a daily newspaper, now is an online only entity and they just had unionization of their reporting staff. And I think it turned out They have eight or nine reporters for this, you know, Capital Cities newspaper. You've got a lack of people covering the state capitals, much less the U.S. capitol. I, I think the other daily, the Wisconsin State Journal, covers the federal government incredibly rarely from a localized perspective because they just don't have the staff. (28:24–28:29)

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