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I am not sure the past was better. All of the industry insiders think so but I am not seeing it. In my region — which is huge, with a robust nation-sized econom
by jeffbee 2y ago
I am not sure the past was better. All of the industry insiders think so but I am not seeing it. In my region — which is huge, with a robust nation-sized economy — we never had a good traditional newspaper. The legacy newspapers produced garbage for decades. Today we have an excellent group of independent internet news outlets providing daily coverage of events and politics, many specialized to one or another of our hundreds of distinct cities. The state of actual reporting here is now much better than it was during the peak of the newspaper era.
- diogenescynic 2y agoI'm only in my mid-30s and I still remember when local papers had actual local staff that covered local topics. Now the local paper is owned by a conglomerate and they just reprint AP/Reuters articles and have a little bit about local sports. It's a joke of what it used to be--and it hasn't been replaced by anything comparable online. It's not about disruption, this is just concentration of media.
- bediger4000 2y agoDo you live in Northern Colorado!?! Because that's the local papers here.
- diogenescynic 2y agoHaha no--Northern California, but I actually kept it generic because that's literally all local papers I've seen. All of them seem to have been bought out and homogenized to where it's actually the same local paper just being re-printed with different name and sports section.
- Larrikin 2y agoI've lived in a major US city and a smaller one in the past few years. Block Club Chicago and the local Axios newsletter are far better than anything I ever read in a newspaper. I hope they are sustainable.