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SocraticGadfly's avatar

Spot-on, Dick. And, the only way to stay in front of potential conspiratorial framing is to get out in front of it from the start. The diehard conspiracy theorists will conspiratize anyway, but you may still stop others.

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Isaiah Jerome Lewis Poole's avatar

This is precisely on point. The transition to nonprofit ownership brings these newspapers closer to the role they serve in the community—as a public trust—but to really earning the public's trust in that role requires the combination of full transparency, public accountability (through a diverse board of community stakeholders), and a structure and practice of editorial independence. For these news outlets to retain their readers and win new ones, I don't see a shortcut.

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