Comment by heavyset_go
1 day ago
Local reporting is basically dead outside of metro areas.
Sure, you can stream, but the content will be focused on another locale or won't address local issues.
1 day ago
Local reporting is basically dead outside of metro areas.
Sure, you can stream, but the content will be focused on another locale or won't address local issues.
When I'm not busy worrying about everything else, I worry that there's assuredly an explosion of local corruption, especially outside of cities large enough to still have something resembling actual local news media, that we can't even begin to get a handle on because it's... well, it's invisible now, that's why it's (surely—I mean, we can't possibly think corruption is dropping or even remaining steady, with the death of the small town paper and small-market TV news rooms, right?) happening in the first place.
I think it's, quietly and slowly, the thing that's going to doom our country to decline if something else doesn't get us first (which, there are certainly some things giving this one a run for its money). The Internet killed a pillar of democracy, replaced it with nothing that serves the same role, and we didn't even try to keep it from happening, so here we are, we doomed ourselves by embracing the Internet quickly and not trying to mitigate any harm it causes.
For some your comment might sound even comic but it is damn true. It safens me that the dangerous spiral is not seen by many others.
After all, the milenia old adage "bread and games" silences to many.
It's pretty dead even in metro areas.
My local NPR broadcasts rarely actually cover anything that's happening in like city or county politics. Heck, even talking about state politics is pretty rare.
In the SF bay area, KQED (NPR affiliate) has a lot of coverage of local SF and Bay Area politics. The Pacifica station, KPFA (public radio but not an NPR affiliate) has more.