A2: Newspaper

On Michigan Liberal.com, Washtenaw County clerk Larry Kestenbaum posts an exchange he had with Lisa McGraw, PR manager of the Michigan Press Association. McGraw had issued a memo stating that newspapers were “alive and well” – the MPA is lobbying to hold onto lucrative legal notices in its members’ newspapers, as currently required by law. Kestenbaum responds to her, noting that even a market as strong as Ann Arbor can’t keep its daily paper. “And even those communities which still have papers have seen the local reporters and writers disappear from the scene. When your papers don’t contain any local news, don’t expect us to be happy about shelling out taxpayer dollars to publish costly legal notices in them.” [Source]