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susinpgh OP t1_j6ung6r wrote

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That's why this whole crop of small, online news sources are so great for local communities. I mean, some of them are partisan af, but Patch seems pretty earnest.

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unenlightenedgoblin t1_j6unrrz wrote

It sucks that the mainstream press around here never covers anything like this. I guess blood and guts and doom and gloom are probably more profitable.

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susinpgh OP t1_j6uphxm wrote

Yeah, that says a lot. It's one of the issues with the last governor's race. There was zero press on Shapiro, and all of the press on Mastriano was negative. I mean, there's no way I was voting for Mastriano, but it really showed how the press has degenerated since the Fairness Act was repealed.

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ewyorksockexchange t1_j6uxhy4 wrote

Do you subscribe to any regional/local papers of record? They tend to have a decent amount of these types of articles, but rarely get much play on aggregators and social media channels generally for several reasons. I’m a Philadelphia Inquirer subscriber, and they routinely call attention to these kinds of beneficial efforts by good people.

As you mentioned, you’re less likely to see much of that on the local TV news, where the “if it bleeds it leads” moniker is a real thing to drive ratings.

I’ve gone on rants about how reporting costs money, and the pay per click ad model broke that understanding in the public, and how that’s harmed our democracy immensely, but yeah.

Btw the people that report for patch and similar outlets make horrible wages and should be celebrated their sacrifices and passion.

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unenlightenedgoblin t1_j6uz9n8 wrote

I unfortunately am in the Pittsburgh media market, where the Post-Gazette is run by a bunch of Trump nuts. It’s a shame, it used to be a great paper. Even if there’s stuff like this buried somewhere in there I just don’t want to support the owners. I would honestly love to be able to subscribe to a short (no more than 10-15 pages per issue), maybe bi-weekly + sunday issue type of physical paper, if there were one reliably covering events that I’m interested around here. Other than Reddit I’m not on social media anymore so I end up not consuming nearly as much news as I used to, and the stories that end up getting my attention tend to be higher quality.

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