organizations or social media machines? well, i love that you guys do the local papers. i love that you do that because the stuff that we should care, where we should place most of our energy and our concern is on the things around us that we can fix, that we can do something about. the collapse of the local news industry 2005 and beyond was deeper, broader, and more devastating than any of us new at the time. my career tracks along with this stuff. i started right at the end where newspapers were the dominant part of the ecosystem, and in their place came in mostly national low-value news that came in that was not about giving people information about how to live their lives but connecting with them on an emotional basis. and what good high-quality news does is give you tools in your life to be a better citizen, to be a better parent, a better neighbor, to be a better you. and you can do something about what s going on in the next local election, about how your neighborhoo
says the country is going to die because of strangers in a different part of the country that you never met are doing else, that leads to despair and one of the biggest problems, people just tune out. pew tells us 15% of all americans did not consume any news from any source at all in the previous week. that is a bad sign because to be good citizens you need to be informed citizens. and the decline of local reporting. the new book, broken news: why the media rage machine divides america and how to fight back. former fox news political editor chris stirewalt, thank you very much for coming on the show. congratulations on the book. thanks so much for having me. it is just two minutes past the top of the hour. the fourth hour of morning joe, 6:00 a.m. on the west coast, 9:00 a.m. on the east