I know it’s not a popular view around here but local newspapers going down isn’t all good. There’s no better source to get local news and no better medium to follow around corrupt local politicos that the national media doesn’t care about.
What you say is true. The media as the “5th estate” is necessary. The Op-Ed took over reporting “Front Page” facts. As soon as they get back to the facts, they get their viability back.
Agree that there is a need for this level of coverage. The very positive aspect of the Media in the 21st Century is the removal of barriers to entry. The stranglehold of the Established Media is being broken and the voids created by the collapse of the print will be filled with National and Niche players.
I'm not worried about a lack of coverage. In fact I think the new structure will enable more complete and intensive coverage that heretofore was excluded due to these barriers.
Hope I'm right in my assessment.
Doesn’t Philly have an Examiner?? I bet they do.
These papers do a pretty good job of covering local news here in Maryland. I’m in the Baltimore burbs and they even have a section that caters to news in my region.
Search for the Examiner online. If you have it, find out where they have boxes to pick up the paper. They’re FREE.
I can get all the news I want off the internet, but I was actually raised on the Philadelphia Daily News. They did a great job with sports and I was a big Flyers and Sixers fan when I was a kid.
I think these kind of web driven newspapers like the Examiner are going to be the wave of the future if you like your news in print and on paper ~ I STILL DO.
I’m also fortunate to have the Washington Times down my way and can pick them up on the news stands, but who has the time to shuffle through a whole newspaper everyday now.
These left wing dinosaurs have done themselves in. They deserve to be unemployed. Along with the unions, special interests and education system they have transformed this nation into the USSA.
We have one local paper in Houston and it doesn't meet your criteria.
Except they cover for their buddies, and local news has been pretty well supplanted by wire reports or joint agreements with local TV stations.
I'd like to see local newspaper people around the country attempt to publish strictly local papers. There's one near me. They follow sports, city council, school board, crime, entertainment, etc.
This is a tactical victory in a strategic loss...a symptom of American illiteracy and reliance on national soundbytes rather than local news and in-depth analysis.
Some shallow FReepers will just blindly cheer it, though, like clueless passengers of the Titanic who stop and listen to the lovely music from the band. But libs are fine, since the sooner newspapers go down, the quicker media control is tightened by the left.
The Bulletin is great, but their reporting corps couldn't cover if the Inky and DN stopped publishing. Maybe someday... :-)
Because local papers have been so good in rooting out corruption in Philly these past few decades!!
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........There’s no better source to get local news .....
That fact while true, is irrelevant. The paper is a business and the cost of providing the local coverage noted exceeds the revenue to purvey it.
That would be fine and dandy IF they actually reported on these corrupt politicians.
But that's where WE come in.
If there is a market for local coverage, other newspapers will emerge. If they are intelligent free-marketers, they will present the news in a more objective manner and will be able to maintain a market.
“I know it’s not a popular view around here but local newspapers going down isn’t all good.” IMO Borges, it is what it is, the local news is migrating into a different medium, the noozpaper business is not the end all for journalism and if they only manage to survive by being on the taxpayer’s tab...they should be gone. BTW, this is called reality aka market forces aka creative distruction.
Exactly. I may be biased considering I am a newspaper reporter at present, but having them go down is NOT a good thing.
As much as I would like to see liberal papers, center/libertarian or even conservative papers like the one I work for are hurting as well. It is not just liberal papers that are in trouble.
Bravo!
“There’s no better source to get local news and no better medium to follow around corrupt local politicos that the national media doesn’t care about.”
My local radio station does a good job. When they are not playing Boorts, Jerry Doyle, Savage, Rusty Humphries et al. They have a local guy doing a morning show to about 9 am. All local, county and state topics.
Well, there's nothing to stop you from creating your own local "paper" [internet-based local news outlet].
In this day and age, the start-up costs are essentially zero.
The Detroit Free Press, liberal rag that it is, was instrumental in bringing down ex Detroit mayor kwame Kilpatrick.
Agreed but as long as newspapers spew liberal propganda and the DNC’s talking points they will keep sinking. I would subscribe to my local paper if it was not TOTALLY biased.
How about a hometown cell or news group?