Who's Watching the Candy Store?

So here is something that worries me.

We hear everyday about massive layoffs in companies large and small (ok, the massive ones, by nature, are only in the large companies). We've been hearing for years about how newspapers are being forced to downsize because of the internet. This time last year the New York Times severely cut newsroom positions and this year we're hearing tales of NPR making cuts to staff and programs.

The loss of journalists may not seem like a serious problem to some--but the problem is that downsizing may result in high quality investigative journalists being forced to take mundane "local news" positions or to lose their jobs altogether.

Fewer investigative journalists is good for the new White House Administration...but very very bad for American Democracy.