John Nichols and the need for a media service corps
John Nichols, The Nation correspondent and co-founder of FreePress, speaks alongside Robert McChesney about the need for a service corps for journalism and public media—much like our own Digital Arts Service Corps. From Democracy Now! (2/4/2010).
Transcript:And we have in America now an Americorps, where we say to a kid who wants to teach, you can go into a community, an underserved, rural or urban community, and start teaching there, and the government will provide a little bit of a stipend, some support. Why not a News Americorps, where we send young people into communities to work at community radio stations, to work in—to develop news sites in underserved places, maybe to supercharge a high school radio station, something like that?
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