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Why decline of newspapers leads to decline of ‘public good’

What happens to a democracy when basic information about the performance of the government and the state of institutions declines to the point of vanishing? A newspaper reported earlier this year that print media advertising had grown to ₹16,000 crore in 2021, rising from ₹12,000 crore in 2020. In the United States, print advertising has halved in just the last five years.