Local newscasts having devastating impact on Democrats. Here’s why.

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[FarCenter]

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At ratings-winner WABC-TV in New York, for example, the channel offers 44 hours of newscasts per week. Most other stations in New York and Philly offer up about the same: Newscasts in the early morning, at noon, 4 p.m., 5 p.m., 6 p.m., 11 p.m. That’s six to seven hours dedicated to the news, mostly local, per day.

And crime is front and center on residents’ television screens every day. Murders, shootings, assaults, smash-and-grabs, car jackings. And with cameras everywhere, whether it’s people filming on their smartphones or public webcams throughout a city, there’s more footage of such crimes than ever before. Beatings and robberies are captured and shared with viewers within hours. There’s never a premium on content. It’s seemingly Groundhog Day lately when it comes to murder scenes, interviews with families and neighbors of victims and crime stories in general.

But here’s where local news separates itself from most cable news programs: The absence of opinions from anchors or pundits.

Just watch your average local newscast regardless of where you live: The most basic tenets of journalism are most prevalent when presenting any story: who, what, when, where, why, how. Almost no point of view or loud talking head to push a narrative.

And it’s having a huge impact on the candidacies of Democrats such as Kathy Hochul, John Fetterman and Kate Brown.

Voters in New York, Pennsylvania and Oregon will make their voices heard on Nov. 8. Inflation and abortion and immigration and education will be big issues, of course. But crime may play the biggest role in deciding who wins many of these races. Local news will help shape the votes of those who are on the fence or otherwise would have stayed home.

That’s because, unlike most of the national media, local news is still a trusted brand mostly free of bloviating opinions and bias.

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It's a mixed bag in my locale. Some do like you described, others present who said or did what, where and leave it at that. The article is a bit unrealistic.

 

 

[bigfootbob]

It’s sad. They may have had enough, though.

They elected a Seattle Republican prosecuting attorney in August.

Women in King County are buying guns and applying for CCW’s in record numbers. The State may exceed 1,000,000 active CCW’s early next year. There’s only 7,000,000 citizens.

Joe Kent sent Jaime Herrera Buetler to the unemployment line.

Patty Murray hasn’t run a single advocacy ad for over a month, just attack ads.

We’ll see in 2 days if any of this means anything.