I am also interested in local TV and how they handle the news. This month's issue is a good example of your narrow, East Coast focus. These two represent a small but steady stream of questions that reflect the frustration of readers with this magazine's preoccupation with the New York-Washington media elite. And I think they make a good point. The fact is that most media, like most politics, are local.
More people get their news first from local TV stations.
The same thing is true of newspaper readers. These five have a combined circulation of just over 6.3 million people. That means 1,504 daily newspapers published in the United States with a combined circulation of 50.4 million, not to mention 7,214 weekly newspapers with a total circulation of over 70 million, pass relatively unnoticed. That's an awful lot of media for a nationally circulating media publication to overlook. To be fair, the September 1998 issue reported at some substantial length on The News Journal in Delaware, the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, and the Tampa media's coverage of a hostage taking.