[Brown Deer]

The Wall Street Journal (for example) doesn’t note individual traffic accidents.

and you can't get a stock quote at your local police station.

The Journal cultivates a country-side audience. People in CA don’t really care much about a traffic fatality in NY, so they’re not cited in The Journal.

Do you really believe that is the reason? Is that why they publish quotes for California municipal bonds? Because that's what the people in CA care about?

[Fantasywriter]

I’ll make it simpler. The Nation strives to be a newspaper of interest to all of Kenya. Its most closely modeled American counterpart is USA Today. [Though people familiar w The Wall Street Journal’s national outreach will readily grasp the parallels.] USA Today rarely if ever chronicles local traffic fatalities.

It is the difference between a local paper and a national newspaper. I’m not surprised you missed the point by a mile; that is all too typical.