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Re:What If the Newspaper Industry Made a Colossal Mistake? by Fricken on Tuesday October 18, 2016 @11:41AM (#12735531)
I remember my print edition, it was mostly schlock, but every now and then they would do some real investigative local reporting, and that was invaluable. No local source has broken a major, deep, sprawling complex story in years, they're basically just bloggers now, they've got a handful of daily beats they cover, and they don't go much deeper than that. Powerful local organizations operate unchecked.
Re:What If the Newspaper Industry Made a Colossal Mistake? by gozur88 on Tuesday October 18, 2016 @05:49PM (#12739038)
This. Local (non-sports) news in my paper is mostly city council stuff and the police blotter. A particularly salacious crime gets a few extra column inches.

Other than that, the paper is wire stories and advertisements.

Re:What If the Newspaper Industry Made a Colossal Mistake? by tcbawo on Tuesday October 18, 2016 @10:44PM (#12740607)
I've noticed neighborhood groups on Facebook starting to fill this vacuum. It would be interesting if online journalism could embrace the model of geographic news.