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 New

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.