My hometown paper publishes their police blotter online, that includes pretty much every police call including car breakins and kitten rescues.

The paper also publishes also publishes local interest stories, interviews, etc.

They don't publish the paper every day any more and it's in tabloid format now instead of broadsheet, but the online site is up to date.

Google maps gives me real-time traffic updates, Waze will tell me if there's construction or a dead animal on the road ahead.

So it's not all in one place, but it's all on my phone, and available on demand, I don't have to wait until the top of the hour to find out if there's an accident on my route to work.

I can get the information on demand 24x7 from anywhere in the world, that seems more useful than having someone read it to me at scheduled times on the radio where if I don't happen to be listening at that time, I miss it.

If I have to work through the high school football game (or am out of town) and want to know the score when I come home, I can pull up the school's webpage at 11pm to see the score, I don't need to tune in at 7am the next morning to hear the local news.

If there's a water leak and school is closed early, I don't have to be listening to the radio all day to hear the announcement or wait for my child to call me, I'll get an SMS (and/or phone call or email or app alert) and I can already be on my way home to meet her.

Too much information is just as bad as not enough

This is a rural area, my typical hometown police blotter column includes 4 or 5 incidents (including the occasional kitten rescues and lost cow found wandering downtown). That's hardly too much information. And back when they did read this information on our local AM station, they included the same information (our family dog made the police report on the radio when she was reported on the local highway and returned home by police)