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I wanna be honest. This has been a truly awful year for journalism.

Trust in media is at an all-time low, as a handful of giant
conglomerates consolidate and downsize their way to greater profits at
the expense of quality reporting. Issues affecting our daily lives, like
the massive wealth gap and the climate crisis, get ignored in favor of
whatever gets the best ratings and the most clicks.

The result is yet another election in which the corporate media was
exposed as being completely out of touch, unable to understand what
happened, much less explain it. It's no wonder that so many news outlets
keep going out of business.

Common Dreams was founded more than 20 years ago to respond to the
crisis in journalism caused by corporate media consolidation. Today,
with one political party unwilling or unable to challenge its own
corporate funders and the other turning toward outright autocracy, we
face not only a crisis in journalism, but a full-blown crisis of
democracy.

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of journalism and survive for more than 20 years is the support of small
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