Why Beat Reporters Matter

David Simon on what's being lost as newspapers cut back

by David Simon

At this point, we are having trouble as a society recognizing our problems, much less solving any of them. But absent a properly funded professional press — one that covers the civic bureaucracies with constancy and tenacity, we're going to have even…

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