Christmas is just a few weeks away, and a reader named Phil Huckelberry has come to me with an excellent idea. “Maybe,” he wrote me over the weekend, “what we should really all be buying each other this holiday season is journalism.”
On Wednesday, November 30, pay for online access to a newspaper you read frequently. Buy a friend a subscription to an online or print magazine. Donate money to a nonprofit which does deep investigative reporting. Support real journalism! And encourage your friends and family to do the same!
Huckelberry says one inspiration for his proposal was my recent Bleader post on Belt magazine going dark just when its light was needed most—to witness the shifting temper of the Rust Belt states that would decide the presidential election.
