Comment by xkbarkar
4 years ago
Why is the closure of local news considered spurred by the pandemic though??
I personally stopped reading news outlets after the first Trump year. Every single news outlet was full of exactly the same Trump vitriol ( I lean left so, not strange ). And to make it worse, I am not even american in the US.
Why read the exact same opEd in the local and the state news?? At least in my home country, since about 1 year after Trump I pretty much scaled from maybe 5 outlets to 2. Since covid times I read one left and one right ( I used to only read left ) and then subscribe to weekly papers that support investigative journalism. Honestly I feel local news shot themselves in the foot with Trump hysteria.
Or maybe it was already in decline and Trump times just made it that much more evident.
> Or maybe it was already in decline and Trump times just made it that much more evident.
I think it's this one. Local news has been in a death spiral for 20 years at least, I distinctly remember adults in the late 90s and early 00s bemoaning the demise of all the local papers, with one left standing but also dying. During Trump times they latched onto reporting about national news instead of local in a desperate bid for relevancy, but obviously couldn't compete with national news.