"Downsizing foreign staff threatens US democracy"

We have to come up with a solution to this, quickly. It is going to require a lot of work to close the huge historical gap between what reporters always thought was important and what people wanted and what people really wanted. That's hard to swallow, but swallow we must and try to rebuild a constituency of people who really do want to stay informed - in a professional manner - about what's going on in the rest of the world. It's an education, marketing and finally, sales job of immense size.