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This is California specific. Don't bother reading if you thought the title was about larger scale trends.
by orasis 10y ago
This is California specific. Don't bother reading if you thought the title was about larger scale trends.
- dsr_ 10y agoPlease don't post any comments about how you live in Montana, then. In the meantime, I thought that it was not merely an interesting article about a particular newspaper in a particular place, but an interesting observation about how to lie with graphs and what interests newspapers really serve.
- dang 10y agoIf it's interesting local commentary then it certainly has a place on HN.
- rco8786 10y agoThis place is full of local commentary. News doesn't have to be global to qualify.
- massysett 10y agoI don't get the downvotes on this one. The article headline makes assertions about the press generally, and then discusses only California anecdotes. There is absolutely nothing in the article to support anything about a "media fixation on 'transit is failing' stories." More accurate would have been "why do a few California news sources have some stories asserting that some local California transit systems are failing?"