What's changed is public consumption/access to news about local issues. Pretty much every local newspaper has been bought up and now almost exclusively talks a

What's changed is public consumption/access to news about local issues. Pretty much every local newspaper has been bought up and now almost exclusively talks about ads... err.. I mean national issues. And it isn't even articles that these papers write, rather just the same article published by someone like The McClatchy Company. Same thing happened to broadcast news.