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Dear Jack,


Something has been quietly disappearing from Mississippi life over the past couple of decades, almost unnoticed.

Local newsrooms have been cutting back, not because they want to, but because they have had to. Advertising moved to the internet, papers shrank, reporters had to do more with less, and some things were no longer covered.

So school boards now can make decisions few parents get to hear about. A county signs away a third of the property taxes on a new plant, and it appears in no headline. Someone stands up at a council meeting and makes the single most important point anyone will make about that city's finances all year — and makes it to a half-empty room.

And yet paradoxically, there is no shortage of what we call news. There is more of it than ever. But look closely at where it comes from. The newspaper writes up what the television station covered. The television station covers what the radio was talking about. The radio talks about what was in the newspaper. It is an echo chamber — a great deal of noise, not always much signal.

That gap is what the Mississippi Wire exists to fill. Click on the image below to read it.
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The Mississippi Wire is more of a news service than a commentary. It's not there to tell you what we make of somebody else's reporting. The Wire aims to give you stories that have simply not appeared anywhere before.

Here is some of what the Mississippi Wire published this week:
These are the ordinary decisions that determine what your children are taught and what your property is taxed at — and until now, most of them happened without anybody outside the room knowing they had happened at all.

We have only been going a couple of weeks, and the traction has been real - more readers, faster, than we expected, and a steady stream of people telling us they had no idea any of this was going on where they live.

Have a look for yourself at M ([link removed]) ississippiWire.News ([link removed]) . And if you find a story there that your neighbor ought to see, send it to them. That is how a state gets its local news back.
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Warm regards,
Douglas Carswell
President & CEO
Mississippi Center for Public Policy

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