Seems like you're painting some pretty broad strokes here. There's a difference between national and local political news. There's a difference between national

Seems like you're painting some pretty broad strokes here. There's a difference between national and local political news. There's a difference between national and local business news. Even within local there are many flavors of news (small-town, big-city, suburban paper, etc.). And, though you don't see it, there's a heck of a lot more local journalism that gets done every day than there is national.