[Surveyed] adults from 206 counties that fit Medill’s definition of news deserts (“counties with no professional source of local news, such as a print or online newspaper, based within that county”), and adults from counties you might call news oases (those with 30 or more professional news outlets). Many people who live in “news deserts” don’t seem to care much (or, as Medill puts it, they “don’t know what they’re missing”).
On the contrary, we know damn well what we’re missing. We’re missing the insults and condescension and DNC propaganda we got from “professional news outlets”.
Instead, we’re receiving INFORMATION in the strict sense, unmediated reports of what’s happening right here. We get it from our own senses and from “deserts” like Facebook pages.
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