More than half of U.S. counties have no or limited access to local news (2023)

https://www.medill.northwestern.edu/news/2023/more-than-half-of-us-counties-have-no-access-or-very-limited-access-to-local-news.html

by grajaganDev • 2 years ago

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honestSysAdmin• 2 years ago

A lot of people in the U.S. are not happy with the corporation that was running a lot of local news stations. This isn't the 1990s, we have broadband internet now. Everybody knows.

  https://rumble.com/v593bca-sinclairs-soldiers-in-trumps-war-on-media.html

ChrisArchitect• 2 years ago

(2023)

mikewarot• 2 years ago

We (Calumet) region rats have Paul Goddard to thank for keeping us on top of things. The local TV stations ignore us, for the most part, as Chicago is huge.

This one dude, working on it part time, seems to be the only decent news source in Northwest Indiana.

jerlam• 2 years ago

What's the population of all these US counties? I have to ask because a county (just like a US state) is an imperfect organizational unit, so there are counties with 500 people and counties with 2 million people. You're not going to find a competitive news market in the former.

A "local news source" in a market that small can mean a single person with an agenda running a blog, which is probably worse than Nextdoor.

stonogo• 2 years ago

You're not going to find a competitive news market in the former.

This is what the Corporation for Public Broadcasting is for. Like all news sources, it is under attack by extremists.

mainecoder• 2 years ago

Half of the US also makes less than 40k seems like they have bigger problems than access to local news, they are on the basic level on Maslow's hierarchy of needs.

More than half of U.S. counties have no or limited access to local news (2023)

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