Agreed. News used to be concerned with local municipalities, less so with state gov, and Sunday paper for national/intl news. We've just got billions of people

Agreed. News used to be concerned with local municipalities, less so with state gov, and Sunday paper for national/intl news. We've just got billions of people glued to know what Andrew Cuomo is doing in NYC. The effects of this centralization/globalisation are massive. Local gov are becoming more corrupt because there is no one to police from a journalistic standpoint.