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Local news tend to be more fact driven and less opinion drivel in my experience. In a lot of big stories the local news can often be way better than any nationa

Local news tend to be more fact driven and less opinion drivel in my experience. In a lot of big stories the local news can often be way better than any national coverage.

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threatofrain 6y ago
> In a lot of big stories the local news can often be way better than any national coverage. 2-3 media firms basically own local media, so we're really just talking about a few mega-corps, such as Sinclair. > A 2019 study in the American Political Science Review found that "stations bought by Sinclair reduce coverage of local politics, increase national coverage and move the ideological tone of coverage in a conservative direction relative to other stations operating in the same market." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinclair_Broadcast_Group https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinclair_Broadcast_Group
- DoingIsLearning 6y ago
  > 2-3 media firms basically own local media ... In the US.
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  - chrismeller 6y ago
    The article was also about the US news media, so it’s relevant. I think if you looked at other countries it’s actually very similar anyway. I mean even in the UK you’re far more likely to be exposed to the BBC’s coverage; through their site, their radio stations, their TV channels; than anyone else’s.
inetknght 6y ago
When I think of "local news", I think of this [0] video. [0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZggCipbiHwE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZggCipbiHwE
- sudosysgen 6y ago
  I don't know why someone would downvote this. There has indeed been massive consolidation of local media, and that is a good example.
- dehrmann 6y ago
  Maybe it'd be slightly disingenuous, but I wish they were time stretched to match up syllable-for-syllable.
dehrmann 6y ago
> opinion drivel This is really the mark of 24-hour cable news. The one-hour nightly news is probably better.
chrismeller 6y ago
I think if you compare something like NBC News with your local NBC affiliate you’ll see it’s similar. Don’t equate national news media with just CNN and Fox News... I find local news mind numbing. It’s the kind of “human interest” stuff that drives me insane, but is exactly what my mother loves... clearly I’m not their target audience. For example, I had an argument with my mother a few years ago. Someone (probably drunk) drove into a tree on an empty rural road at 2am. While it’s obviously tragic that they died, I don’t find that to be “news”. News is something that has an impact on a group of people that is larger than a single family. My mother disagreed, she cared much more for the local news than the “depressing” stuff covered by news outlets like the NYT.

Local news tend to be more fact driven and less opinion drivel in my experience. In a lot of big stories the local news can often be way better than any national coverage.

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threatofrain 6y ago

> In a lot of big stories the local news can often be way better than any national coverage. 2-3 media firms basically own local media, so we're really just talking about a few mega-corps, such as Sinclair. > A 2019 study in the American Political Science Review found that "stations bought by Sinclair reduce coverage of local politics, increase national coverage and move the ideological tone of coverage in a conservative direction relative to other stations operating in the same market." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinclair_Broadcast_Group https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinclair_Broadcast_Group

DoingIsLearning 6y ago
> 2-3 media firms basically own local media ... In the US.
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- chrismeller 6y ago
  The article was also about the US news media, so it’s relevant. I think if you looked at other countries it’s actually very similar anyway. I mean even in the UK you’re far more likely to be exposed to the BBC’s coverage; through their site, their radio stations, their TV channels; than anyone else’s.

inetknght 6y ago

When I think of "local news", I think of this [0] video. [0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZggCipbiHwE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZggCipbiHwE

sudosysgen 6y ago
I don't know why someone would downvote this. There has indeed been massive consolidation of local media, and that is a good example.
dehrmann 6y ago
Maybe it'd be slightly disingenuous, but I wish they were time stretched to match up syllable-for-syllable.

dehrmann 6y ago

> opinion drivel This is really the mark of 24-hour cable news. The one-hour nightly news is probably better.

chrismeller 6y ago

I think if you compare something like NBC News with your local NBC affiliate you’ll see it’s similar. Don’t equate national news media with just CNN and Fox News... I find local news mind numbing. It’s the kind of “human interest” stuff that drives me insane, but is exactly what my mother loves... clearly I’m not their target audience. For example, I had an argument with my mother a few years ago. Someone (probably drunk) drove into a tree on an empty rural road at 2am. While it’s obviously tragic that they died, I don’t find that to be “news”. News is something that has an impact on a group of people that is larger than a single family. My mother disagreed, she cared much more for the local news than the “depressing” stuff covered by news outlets like the NYT.