The local news has been emasculated, I stopped watching them years ago. These don’t go down overnight, there is a drip, drip process that wears on those to afraid to come out. I watched the process unfettered from half way around the world without the 6 o’clock news. Were you old enough to have understood Watergate as it happened? I had a front row seat from the Embassy in Tehran.
Yes, i remember watergate well, that was wall to wall reported, but Nixon didn’t have that magic “D” after his name.
When cars had no seat belts, steel dashboards, side vent windows, and an ashtray that would hold a carton of cigarettes.