{"id":14184,"date":"2023-10-02T10:59:37","date_gmt":"2023-10-02T14:59:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsmediaalliance.org\/?p=14184"},"modified":"2025-04-21T14:31:44","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T18:31:44","slug":"my-trip-to-capitol-hill-and-the-desperate-need-to-save-newspapers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsmediaalliance.org\/my-trip-to-capitol-hill-and-the-desperate-need-to-save-newspapers\/","title":{"rendered":"My Trip to Capitol Hill, and the Desperate Need to Save Newspapers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(<em>The Examiner News<\/em>, 10\/2\/23)<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;As I boarded an Amtrak train back home from Washington, D.C. last Thursday morning, leaving a city bracing for a potential (ultimately averted) government shutdown amid a debate checkered with misinformation, the capitol\u2019s dysfunction and discord provided an appropriate backdrop to the urgent mission that had brought me there. 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