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    Der Verlust lokaler Nachrichten: Amerikas wachsende Nachrichtenwüsten


    Der Verlust lokaler Nachrichten: Amerikas wachsende Nachrichtenwüsten

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    2. chiefmud on

      Wayne county indiana has at least 2 ( stating this map has it wrong)

    3. Free_Taste_2206 on

      This is insanely misleading. The data used is about if a county is HOME to a local news station; NOT if they have access to one. The reality in much of America has always been that rural regions pull long range from larger metro areas who have the capability of hosting transmitting stations. While there has been consolidation in recent years of these stations, the landscape has always looked similar to this, if not worse.

    4. UbiSububi8 on

      This also explains how errors, phrases, missing context, and other negative shit gets stuck in the public consciousness.

      All these places still get news – just not locally sourced. So, when news *does* happen in a desert, it gets reported by people who are in and out, and have no way of knowing the context.

      Also, everything is repeated and echoed now. If *one* local outlet prints a story, dozens of others may then turn their own stories based on that one item (often without any additional reporting done).

      So if that one initial writer muffs a fact or omits or fails to account for context… *that error will live on forever in all the reporting on that story*

      It’s dangerous.

    5. Roughneck16 on

      And this is how I find out that the Catron County Courier is out of business.

      I guess New Mexico has become a “news desert.”

    6. tigerman29 on

      Shouldn’t this by metro area and not county? Why would a city with 6 counties making the metro area have news unique news outlets in every county? This is how disinformation brews.

    7. Lost_Annual1588 on

      This seems a little inaccurate. On this map, my county has 2-5 outlets, but that isn’t quite right. We don’t have two unless you count news media from Albuquerque (which is about 200 miles away and in another state). Our “local” news is from a different state.

    8. Dr__-__Beeper on

      Totally not true. 

      Everywhere has Facebook now. Even the news outlets, use it to advertise, and run their stories. 

    9. ParkingLime9747 on

      This needs more context. You must be talking about local newspapers? You’ve listed many of my neighboring counties that have plenty of local television news coverage. Multiple stations in fact.

    10. Dr__-__Beeper on

      Another problem with the story, is that none of the places in red need a local news service.

    12. SnooPears5432 on

      I guess it might depends on what they mean by “local news outlet”. Newspapers? Radio news? Local TV station news? Because even if it’s just TV stations with local news broadcasts, I can see counties on this map that I’m familiar with that are incorrect.

    13. GrouchyHippopotamus on

      Looks like the source defines this as daily newspapers, so knowing that, this map becomes much less alarming. My rural county has two local news sources, but only one puts out a daily paper, and I think that is actually only six days per week. Thus, the map only shows one source, but both of them have active websites with multiple daily updates.

    15. Jmazoso on

      Well my towns local news only seems to report on traffic accidents, so it’s not like there’s a big loss of it goes away.

    16. HeemeyerDidNoWrong on

      “Loss” would be better represented with a measure of change, not absolute numbers. I’ll bet Esmeralda County, Nevada has never had a news agency, why would they need one?

    17. Appropriate-Fold-485 on

      Yeah but Texas also has the most counties. That blurb needs to reflect the percentage of counties without newspapers.

      If Delaware (the state with the fewest counties*) had exactly zero newspapers in the entire state, that would be more relevant information.

      Alaska boroughs and districts considered counties here.

    18. tallwhiteninja on

      A lot of these counties have triple digit people living there. Loving County, TX, has 43.

      Feels like this is a bad way to capture the problem.

    19. JNSapakoh on

      Cool … how many of these “local” stations are actually owned by Sinclair or other massive conglomerates?

    20. Mission-Carry-887 on

      Even in places with 10+ news outlets I never bother.

      Local reddit subs and nextdoor provide all the local news I need.

    21. Stup1dMan3000 on

      A single map about a point in time is hard to show change over time. The numbers employed over the last 15 years was down 60%+, compared to the heydays in the 1950s-1970s it more than 25x less local news folks

    22. Salty-Snowflake on

      I always look at my own county to check the data. We have two newspapers and an FM radio station – it’s been this way for at least 10 years when our second newspaper started publishing. The map shows we only have one. Small, rural county. Can’t miss anyone. 🤣

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