I wrote a Facebook entry asking one of our local stations to get off the endless Ben Roethlisberger story and cover some real news...like maybe yesterday’s tea party? I noticed just now that my entry isn’t there anymore.
IMHO, the handful of wire services and original sources for national and international news, which feed our local and regional radio newscasts and newspapers, are the proper targets for mass conservative action.
I may be wrong, but I believe that middle America gets its news and view of the world from LOCAL FM radio and the first five paragraphs of stories in the LOCAL paper. This middle America is disinterested in either the Huffington Post or Free Republic, and is much larger than the crowd that cares about Fox News vs MSNBC.
We need to be having direct conversations with the editors of our LOCAL news outlets, pointing out the garbage they transmit and making them consider alternatives.