"In 2009 Illinois legislators signed into law the Video Gaming Act which legalized video gambling and paved the way for rapid and massive installation of such machines across the state. These machines were supposed to solve the state’s woeful finances—instead, a decade later, the state has lost over $1 billion on video gambling and has opened the gates to a flood of new problems—including a whirlwind rise in gambling addiction... Coverage of video gambling in Illinois has been limited... The Chicago Tribune—Illinois’s largest paper—has ignored the negatives of video gambling, and no other major national paper has covered the topic in any depth."
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Project Censored is a media research, education, and advocacy initiative that champions the importance of a free press for democratic self-government. The Project’s mission is to expose and oppose news censorship and to promote independent investigative journalism, media literacy, and critical thinking.It was founded at Sonoma State University (California, USA) in 1976.
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