Support your local muckrakers

[rydra_wong]

Here's a thought: if you have a bit of spare money, one useful thing might be supporting local papers that are doing good investigative journalism, especially re: politicians.

For example, the Jackson Free Press did killer work digging up stories on Cindy Hyde-Smith:

https://twitter.com/JxnFreePress/status/1069683995976306689

And here's a very impressive thread listing some of the achievements of local reporters in 2018:

https://twitter.com/joey_cranney/status/1074008108857524225

Comments

[lynnenne]

I second this motion.

[sporky_rat]

The Jackson Free Press is a lovely paper.