Author Joan Livingston's 35-year career as a journalist provides food for thought about the changes in news reporting from "fair, objective and accurate" to today's seeming preference for argumentative, emotional and opinion-based content. Denise and Joan also talk about the relevance of newspapers in our digital world and their fondness of local news and the papers that print it.
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