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from “Local Journalism Is on Its Knees – Endangering Democracy. Who Will Save It?”
“Some of the most trusted sources of news – local sources, particularly local newspapers – are slipping away, never to return. The cost to democracy is great. It takes a toll on civic engagement – even on citizens’ ability to have a common sense of reality and facts, the very basis of self-governance.”
The news industry, where profits tend to vary between slim and non-existent, has particularly suffered over the past four months. Scores of newspapers have laid off staff or closed entirely, according to Poynter, and in April Penny Abernathy, the Knight chair in journalism and digital media economics at the University of North Carolina, told The Guardian she expected “hundreds, not dozens” of newspapers and news websites to close.



Excerpt from The Guardian

Question
Use the passage to answer the question.

What does the passage claim is the result of local newspapers disappearing?

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Responses

economic uncertainty
economic uncertainty

media consolidation
media consolidation

reduced civic engagement
reduced civic engagement

disruption of technology
disruption of technology
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Answer 1

reduced civic engagement

The passage says the loss of local newspapers "takes a toll on civic engagement" and citizens' shared sense of facts.