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Chris Hedges, about whom I know nothing, is concerned about the future of journalism, particularly if that future is dominated by the Huffington Post. He argues that

The daily reporting and monitoring of city halls, courts, neighborhoods and government, along with investigations into corporate fraud and abuse, will be replaced by sensational garbage and Web packages that are made to look like news but contain little real news.

If only the local newspapers would have stuck to this model. The "Wisconsin State Journal," outside of the sports page, carries nearly no regular accounts of the nuts and bolts of everyday life in Madison and environs. Plus and also, it's badly written, uninformative, and disingenuous on those subjects it does deal with.  I neither like nor read The Huffington Post, for the reasons he outlines and the fact that Arianne Huffingtonpost is, I think, Beelzebub.