It's become increasingly difficult to get extensive and unbiased local news coverage. And we are talking about across different media. Seattle Times is the big local paper - but I don't get it delivered and frustratingly their website, which is a good resource, has become subscription based. The 4 main TV channels (ABC, NBC, CBS and Fox) each broadcast local news from different providers. One of them is owned by Sinclair - and I'm not prepared to watch anything run by that notoriously right-wing broadcaster. I used to watch Q13 quite a lot - which despite being affiliated with Fox was actually independent of it. Until recently, when it got officially acquired by Fox - so I'm no longer watching that either. Both Sinclair and Fox have an inclination to reduce actual meaningful local coverage in place of national right-wing coverage - and in many instances are actually forced by their parent company to air certain opinion pieces. And that leaves 2 other TV stations with local news - neither of which are particularly good and neither of which I have any particular inclination to watch. So it appears that my local news intake is going the same way as my national news intake. Significantly reduced.
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