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I have always viewed local news as anemic. As a young child I found it super boring and would always look forward to national and international news. In my home
by datavirtue 5y ago
I have always viewed local news as anemic. As a young child I found it super boring and would always look forward to national and international news. In my hometown, the last time our major news paper ran a good corruption story it got attacked by Carl Lindner and subsequently neutered. Fast forward a few decades and our city was found to be a hotbed of corruption, not by local journalism, but by the FBI. It was unchecked but could have easily been uncovered by decent journalism a lot sooner.
- emodendroket 5y agoAt one point American cities all had multiple newspapers with staff doing real investigative work but those days are getting to be pretty far behind us. Now you've got one guy who covers an entire region and is obviously just writing up press releases.