Chris Matthews blames lack of good newspapers with national news stories for people not caring about Russia. Thursday’s (August 3) Hardball on MSNBC:
After New York Times reporter Jeremy Peters pointed out Republicans stuck with Nixon, so no surprise Trump’s base sticking with him, Matthews opined:
“I think part of that is the loss of newspapers in many parts of the country. I was out — no, I was just out in the west with my wife. We were driving around, you know, in Colorado and Utah and Wyoming. There’s no local big serious newspaper in the — the Denver papers, they’re — you don’t pick it up in the morning when you go down the drive way or whatever, the mail box — there’s not a newspaper that tells you what’s going to nationally. There are local newspapers that are okay but the days where people had a pretty good newspaper to read. So, how are you going to keep up with Russia? Even if you’re slightly interested it there’s no story to read. That’s a fact.”
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