A respected news team for a radio station in Kamloops, B.C. (Radio NL), has been terminated as the station tries to change to a sports, music and news format. This comes at a time when radio stations and newspapers are struggling to retain audiences and readers.

Consolidation is occurring in our best sources of information. Today, there is more information available, but pinpointing the truth has never been more difficult. Social media, with few rules or concerns about truth, has affected what we hear and believe.

It is not patronizing to say that newspapers, for decades, have been the most accurate source of information, with more checking and confirmed details than any other. We called newspapers the “poor man’s encyclopedia,” and today when we want to look at our own or our community’s history, it is often old newspapers that we look for.

There’s no doubt that newspapers have had their own slant on news reports, but as........

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