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Re:Amish Hackers (2009) by bluGill on Friday February 14, 2020 @07:50AM (#22326086)
What I miss the most is local news. If something happens in Italy (pick a random country that is far away from my US home) that matters to me I will hear about it. However if something happens on my block I am unlikely to hear about it because things that close to home matter even when they are well below insignificant on the scale of national (or even state level) news.

Note that news shows cover a much larger area than my neighborhood and wouldn't give me that anyway. What I need most is a local newspaper with a small circulation.

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Re:Amish Hackers (2009) by jermaustin1 on Friday February 14, 2020 @08:36AM (#22326347)
This is why I pay for a couple of my local "papers". Thankfully I live in a section of New York (Halfway between Poughkeepsie and Peekskill) with loads of them. I'm sure a lot of mediumly populated places have at least one. Even my town of 600 has it's own paper - that I don't subscribe to because they distribute them to most of the shops in town.

Even if they have a political slant (which (a lot|most|all) of them do), it's easy to ignore that coverage and focus on the truly local news. Also, tons of local gossip.

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