Student journalists step in to cover US ‘news deserts’

from a few colleges or depts of Journalism to millions of readers? any data for such self-promotion. students journalists from one program at one campus filling state-wide news desserts? Show me....

A big problem with journalism, the media, is that is has become too dependent on its paymasters, who are no longer (if they ever were) the purchasers of its output (a process now greatly undermined by the Internet) - but its advertisers. So now the media will almost never advocate anti-corporatism, even where this might be a better solution to issues such as the environment. Maybe we could just consume less, rather than consuming techno-fixes, to reduce our emissions and pollution. Why do we seek to curb CO2, yet allow promotion of fashion and cosmetics to run rampamt? Why do we promoite electric cars, yet don't campaign for heavily subsidised bus fares. Why do we allow H2S, yet don't campaign for those billions to be spent on reopening local rail lines and stations? Why do we have a war on supermarket plastic, but don't promote home cooking that would use fresh ingredients and demand far less packaging anyeway, as well as being far healthier than processed food? But you'll seldom see any of this in a press where many of the articles are hidden advertising, sometimes well hidden, sometimes barely so. That's why so much of the papers are given to international travel, fashion, home improvements, hobbies, all of which are about consumption. They know well that, as Huxley said, "A walk in the forest keeps no factories busy". This is what the Fourth Estate has become - a Sink Estate, because the residents of what we once termed 'sink estates' were generally Benefit-dependent rather than creating their own wealth, and the press is now similarly dependent on its corporate beneficiaries rather than creating a product that will make its own wealth through sales to an intrigued public. And I don't anticipate student journalists producing anything different, as many of them, although admirably well aware of our environmental perils and problems, seem likewise hooked on the techno-fix solution, not the Huxleyian one.

I'm sure some of the output will be of high quality, certainly the student reporting I read in 'The College Fix' on-line is usually better written than many of the MSMSM (Midden Stream Main Sewer Media) items reporting on US University's, often with a far wider breadth covering side issues the MSMSM would rather keep hidden. The bigger problem with most student 'reporters' is their inability to overcome their inculcated biases from the ideology they've been exposed to throughout their lives both in education and from the MSMSM.