Comment by Dan_Sylveste

>your local paper may cater to a part of the community whose perspective you don't share

Local papers are usually both barely profitable and locally funded. Local businesses, similarly, are usually scraping by. A local paper that alienates a significant fraction of the community doesn't usually survive. Local reporting is usually straightforward and factual, therefore.

That's the other reason local reporting is important, because it can't afford biases. It's where journalists learn to be impartial.