On Monday, Facebook showed me a memory about the importance of newspapers. It said, “Thinking you don’t need newspapers because you have social media is like thinking you don’t need farmers because you have grocery stores.” It’s true. Without news outlets, social media pages would lose their sources for a wide variety of content.
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