Craig Aaron on Local Journalism, Barbara Briggs on Workplace Disasters

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This week on CounterSpin: At FAIR, we say you can change the channel all you want, but you can’t turn on what isn’t there. The loss of an information source—a particular place for debate, for conversation, on issues relevant to you—is incalculable, but very real. We talked about the loss of local journalism, and why we can still be hopeful, with Craig Aaron of the group Free Press. Transcript: ‘The Commercial System Isn’t Providing the Local News We Need’Also on the show: Fashion is always a huge media story, but what goes into it is not. The Garment Worker Protection Act, passed in California late last year, aims to address some of those harms.