I paid a visit to Port Arthur, the petrochemical city sitting right in the path of Hurricane Laura, in 2017, and had dinner with the managing editor of the local paper. I thought I'd be meeting a grizzled but wise local journalisthttps://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/26/us/hurricane-laura-update.html …
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After Laura passes there will no doubt be excellent coverage by reporters in from Houston and the national press, to cover the aftermath. But there will not be local news outfits to put things in context and dig for deeper stories, because that was dismantled long ago
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No matter how good a reporter you are, you can't parachute in after a disaster and get the sense of a community from its ruins. That goes double for a place like the industrial Gulf Coast, where a lot of people are transient to begin with. We need local journalism back.
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The one question I'd love to see answered—if you drive the Texas Gulf Coast near the Louisiana border, you see tons and tons and tons of RV's and mobile homes, in RV park after RV park. Who are these people, and what are their lives like?
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News Corp (Murdoch) spent several decades buying out Australian local newspapers, then closed a lot in Mayhttps://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-05-28/news-corp-to-cut-jobs-in-restructure-towards-digital-newspapers/12294970 …
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Murdochs are the real enemy - why they are not shunned/protested
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