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A pair of decades-old policies may change the way rural America gets local news

  • Written by Christopher Ali, Assistant Professor, Department of Media Studies, University of Virginia
imageWhat will be left of rural television stations?Dual Freq, CC BY-SA

While Americans were distracted by the very important public debates around an open internet and the proliferation of fake news online, the Federal Communications Commission quietly proposed reshaping a key way rural Americans stay informed – their local television news.

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