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Friend,

****Bernie Sanders is right.

"The American people desperately need high-quality journalism," he
wrote just last week.

Then he added:

I believe that is why most reporters and newspaper staff get into this
work.

I am not talking about the ones that are paid millions of dollars to
pontificate about frivolous political gossip, but the ones who, in the
words of Joseph Pulitzer, undertake the painstaking reporting that will
"fight for progress and reform, never tolerate injustice or corruption,
[and] always fight demagogues."

This is correct.

And he's also on the mark when he described what ails journalism.

"All across the country, corporate conglomerates and hedge fund
vultures have bought and consolidated local newspapers and slashed their
newsrooms," he explained, "all while giving executives and
shareholders big payouts."

And the result of this trend? The "decimation of journalism" and
corporate news outlets "lining up for billions of dollars a year in
pharmaceutical and oil ads while failing to provide a consistently fair
hearing for issues like Medicare for All or downplaying coverage of the
climate crisis."

Again, he's correct. And who pays the price for this grotesque
reality? Well, we all do. You. Me. Our families and friends and loved
ones. Our local communities pay. Our democracy pays. This planet is
paying the price, and so is the future.

And so, this is the promise of independent, nonprofit journalism.
Recognizing this calamitous state of corporate media consolidation is
the reason we come to work every day at Common Dreams-an organization
and news outlet founded to serve the public interest and defend the
common good.

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