There’s Already a Solution to the Crisis of Local News. Just Ask This Founding Father.
[ad_1] The key to making this policy work — logistically, constitutionally and politically — was its content-neutrality. Benjamin Franklin did not sit around in the Postmaster General’s Office deciding whether the New York Gazetteer was wittier than the Massachusetts Spy. All newspapers benefited. But that’s not to say political factors didn’t shape policy. Urban and…