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  1. Posted on May 12, 2024
    Tomgram
    Tom Engelhardt

    Jane Braxton Little, Reporting from a Burned-Out Main Street
    Today, TomDispatch regular Jane Braxton Little writes about the “news deserts” spreading across rural parts of America. These are often the same regions hit hard by the unparalleled fires, floods, and fierce storms that are increasingly part of a world growing hotter and more violent by the year. Her own town, Greenville, was essentially burned out in 2021 by California’s single-largest blaze ever, the grim Dixie Fire (something she wrote about for TomDispatch). In response, as she notes today, she and some of her local friends and associates have bravely started a new community paper, The Plumas Sun, to fill in a bit of her own news desert in tough times.
    Meanwhile, those deserts are only growing and not just in rural America either. In a wild social-media world, the newspaper is, it seems, beginning to go down. Only recently, for instance, the LA Times laid off 20% of its newsroom, 115 journalists (especially young ones of color), not to speak of its executive editor, managing editor, and Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington D.C. bureau chief. (And all of that came after a previous set of job slashes in June 2023.)
    And the LA Times wasn’t exactly atypical. In 2023, the Washington Post also cut 240 jobs or 10% of its workforce, while Time magazine axed 15% of its editorial employees. All three were reportedly losing millions of dollars. (And keep in mind that the LA Times is owned by billionaire Patrick Soon-Shiong, the Post by billionaire Jeff Bezos, and Time by billionaire Marc Benioff.) Last year, there were at least 2,681 job cuts among news reporters across broadcast, digital, and print outfits and the numbers only seem to be growing.
    So, as we head into the 2024 election season, news readers, whether in rural America or in some of its biggest cities, may find themselves in growing news deserts — as You Know Who once again takes center stage, a tweet at a time. Tom Engelhardt
    https://tomdispatch.com/local-newspapers-are-lifelines-for-climate-disaster-communities/

  2. Carolyn you need to visit Texas. It is a huge state and has a lot of agriculture business. Things do grow here.

    1. Carolyn, I’m sorry.I know you know better than that. I reacted to your remark about agri-communities. What what do you expect from Texas? Their weather is pretty out there,
      I went back and listened again. It’s around the 19.30 minutes.

  3. I don’t think any bank, regardless of what size or whether or not they trade publicly or what their policies are can survive a crisis or collapse because they do fractional reserve lending, all of them. That means they’ll never have enough cash on deposit to cover everyone’s deposit and they also claim they’re covered by the FTC so in reality no bank is safe. I would just put that out there, people take a huge risk putting their money in the bank full stop.

    1. Then nothing is safe. That means we all go hide in the woods with a shot gun and eat beans. The only solution is building wealth as in enterprises and community. So nope. I have no intention of pulling out of my bank or lots of other great businesses I do business with. What I do try to do is build a network and provisions that can withstand shocks – together.

  4. Regarding the Hyperdimensional Realities: I have been also following Laura Knight’s work for over 20 years now. The research of her group to uncover the truth on a wide variety of topics is one of the best out there. They also run the sott.net alternative news website (SOTT = Signs of the Times).

  5. Catherine:
    I know you are a proponent of cash & checks whenever wand wherever possible. I am as well. Who do you use, or how do you determine which credit card provider to use on the occasion(s) you need one. I have cancelled Amazon, and American Express, which has left me holding the bag in a sense. Is there a good one out there or at least a few “less bad” ones?

    1. No good ones. I use European bank cards and US bank debit cards and then Capital One VISA and Mastercard (groan)

  6. Catherine, you always have your pulse on so many varied subjects. Before these poor farmers are soon to be forced off their farms, bc of all the increased regulations. Is there any national publication where farmers can advertise” Looking for people perhaps “city dwellers”, who want to change their lives? Why not sell your homes and move out to a farm life and become partners in our cattle farm”? It just seems like people want to escape the city,with some equity in their homes, and are eager to start a new life. I know I’m being idealistic, but just curious about your response. Thanks, Michael Pargett

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