This is actually something I've been thinking about lately. I'm nearing the end of reading The Information Diet (which is just OK IMHO) but that one thing that

This is actually something I've been thinking about lately. I'm nearing the end of reading The Information Diet (which is just OK IMHO) but that one thing that stuck is that he mentions getting more information about your local news so that you can get involved in your community. I can't stand the local newspapers because they are very regularly inaccurate. But there really isn't much else in the form of good local news source. Only problem is, I fell out of love with Google awhile ago. I don't really want to use their products due to how much data they gather and also fear of them killing the product within 5 years.