(audio) Why today's mainstream newspapers print an increasing amount of junk: Nancy Cleeland

From CounterSpin

A dispiriting sign of the times—yet another veteran, award-winning journalist leaving the field. Nancy Cleeland was a labour reporter (you've heard of that) at the Los Angeles Times; she wrote on a range of issues affecting working class people, even shared in a Pulitzer for a series on Wal-Mart. But, she says, the paper today just doesn't seem to care about stories about working people or the poor—no matter how critical those stories are. We'll hear from Nancy Cleeland.

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The interview with Nancy starts at 10:25.

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