SCOTLAND’S media needs a radical democratic transformation in order to survive and prosper, journalists and politicians said this weekend.
At a Morning Star fringe meeting at Scottish Labour conference, Midlothian MP and former journalist Danielle Rowley highlighted the “huge, huge decline in local papers and local journalists.”
She said it was far harder for politicians both to get their message out and to be held to account because of staffing cuts at newspapers.
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