Hello and welcome to the ghosting the news episode of Sleet Money.

Your guide to the business and finance news of the week.

It's a heavy media edition this week because not only do we have

the three normal journalists who are always on this show that is myself Felix

Aman vaccinesios we have Emily Peck of Huffpost

Hello we have Anna Shimanski of Breaking Views hello and we don't just have a

journalist special guest we have a journalist special guest. We have a meta-journalist special guest. We have

Margaret Sullivan of the Washington Post. Welcome. Thank you. You write a must read media column for the Washington Post and then in your

spare time you write books for Columbia Global Reports. This is your

opportunity, plug your book. Ah well I've written a book about the decline of local news and what it means for our democracy,

and it's called, just as this episode of Slate Money is called, ghosting the news, local journalism, and the crisis of American democracy.

So yes, you know, my publication date was very recently and check it out. It's a brief and breezy read it is a

brief and breezy read I can recommend it and we are going to be covering a lot of

what you cover in that book in this episode. We're going to talk about the decline of local newspapers. We're going to talk a little bit about these hedge funds who are buying them up. We're going to talk about democracy. We're going to talk about bias in news reporting. I believe Emily Peck that we are going to get

dragged in a little bit into the debate about the discourse and Barry Weiss if you if you can believe it.

We are going to talk about unions we are going to talk about whether news should be publicly

funded we have so much going on and I promised myself

that this wouldn't just be a media navel gazing show, but it does seem to have

turned into a media navel gazing show. There's lots of media on this show for all of you

media nerds. I hope you enjoy it. It's all coming up on slate money.

Margaret you have this amazing book.

Congratulations on its publication. It is like many of the

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