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New Deserts and Non-Abridgment: Supporting Informational Democracy by Reviving Local News

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 Ultimately, my argument is more normative than legal. It is hard to glean, even from a non-abridgment reading of the First Amendment, a constitutional obligation for the government to take steps like those outlined above. But perhaps politics and technology can accomplish what law alone cannot. Once one accepts the democratic necessity of local news and the reality of government’s contribution to its current state, an expanded role for publicly funded media seems far less radical.
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This, as you see, isn't really an essay about law or the First Amendment. It's primarily a policy argument about the need for a federation model for local news, as an alternative to tax-based redistribution from the parasite's platforms. It's an appealing argument that doesn't need to be constitutionally required to be interesting. You could tie the hub concept to the community college journalism programs that should be part of the ecosystem. You could show why the geometry of private-equity journalism, with its centralizing hubs as opposed to federating ones, leads to the other form of ecosystem by an almost biological alternation. That's the route to improvement, to remove the law and give the social policy analysis more room.

 
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