The Guardian

(...) I had naively believed that humanity’s problem was an information deficit. Shine a light and change would follow. Now, I began to see, while the pen might be mightier than the sword, the wallet is mightier than the pen. (...)

The mainstream media, with a few exceptions, is a single-issue lobby group, whose purpose is to assert the rights of capital.

But perhaps the ground is shifting. Citizen journalism is flowering, through the Bylines network, openDemocracy, Double Down News, Novara, Declassified and DeSmog, and in particular at the local level. (...)

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Illustration: Thomas Pullin/The Guardian

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