tamori

I don’t know where you live, but at least in the US, local news is almost extinct. I used to work for a chain of local newspapers - we had one or more reporters for each one, and we would go to every town and school board meeting and cover what was happening. That chain was bought up by a national, half the papers were shuttered outright, and the rest are run by one editor who doesn’t have time to do in depth coverage, and basically just parrots press releases. A few “local” replacements have cropped up that are little more than propaganda mills, without even an attempt at impartiality.

The biggest issue is that local news used to be funded by classified ads, mostly. Since most of the functions served by classified ads migrated to the internet, no one has yet figured out an alternative funding model.

Wait, there were no black people in Italy in the 1800s? Italy isn’t exactly far from Africa - Africans were part of the Roman Empire, and Shakespeare was writing about black people in Italy only a couple centuries earlier - Heck, Othello was based on an Italian story written around the same time as Pinocchio, and that one had a black protagonist, too! They may not have been a majority, but they existed.