I can speak broadly to that. It's very bad for democracy overall. I think democracy requires a free press, not just at a national level, to comment on what a prime minister or a president is doing, or what the national legislature is doing, but at local levels and regional levels. Journalism in a democracy requires that you have oversight and people knowing what public officials are doing.
As we've seen over the last 20 or so years, as the number of journalists has dried up, there's simply not a reporter to send to a public meeting to know what's going on. The public is uninformed. There is significant research indicating that as newsrooms close, corruption in public offices increases, because there's simply no oversight to stop it.