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They are killing the news because it's the only thing that can stop them

Layoffs for digital giants. Local newsrooms slowly dying. The crooked rejoice.

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Justin Glawe
Jan 28, 2019
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You might have seen the bad news about the news recently, which in this round included a bunch of layoffs at BuzzFeed and HuffPo, in addition to the forever-round of local newspapers slowly dying a horrific death.

Or maybe you didn’t because a lot of people probably didn’t. A lot of people don’t read the news and therefore don’t care if it dies. I don’t…

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