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Who’s Watching Your Statehouse? No One.
Watchdog
The number of full-time journalists on the Capitol beat is down 40 percent since 2003. Why even politicians are saying weak newspaper economics is a disaster for democracy.
Eleanor Clift
Published
Jul. 19 2014
12:00AM EDT
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Eleanor Clift
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