iamlucky13 wrote: ↑Wed Feb 24, 2021 10:51 pm
The local newspaper (print or digital, your choice) is perennially of high value.
If you want good coverage of local issues to be available, I'd say it's a necessary investment. In-depth coverage of the local news is not really available elsewhere. A lot of topics are only locally important, so the number of people interested in reading about them is not enough to fund effective reporting on them solely through ads.
I would have agreed with you until our local newspaper was bought by out of town private equity group. Now bereft of most journalists, few that remain seem to be free lancers, primary articles taken from NYT or WP or AP newswire. Only local news covered in depth are local sports. And of course paid obituaries. After many years may let my subscription expire. The old gray mare..... Oh well.