Our colleague, David Folkenflik, had a piece on Morning Edition today about what happens to a town when its newspaper shuts down. The future of the media is something we've gotten a lot of questions about and we've looked at the economic angle on the podcast. Folkenflik's story takes a different approach, with a look at the changing way we get our news.
"You lose a sense of community," Pazniokas says. "If everybody is looking at dozens or hundreds of different news sources, you don't have the common point of reference that — not to be corny — [is] an important part of democracy and community."
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