Via NiemanLab: Some Americans still have trust in local news, but they’re unwilling to pay for it. As usual the “journalists” who caused this problem can’t figure it out.
Well, send me something worth paying for and I’ll pay. I love to pay for good products and good services. I won’t bother to tell you what’s worthwhile. Thousands of people, including even a few insiders, have been telling you what’s wrong. You’ve never listened before and you won’t listen now.
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Later: A 1950s Bob and Ray comedy routine expressed the local news problem perfectly. It’s still the same 70 years later. Intrepid Reporter Wally Ballou is on location in a bank. He’s doing an in-depth investigation of interest rates, interviewing the bank’s loan officer. After a minute we hear crashing sounds, screams, a loud voice shouting “THIS IS A STICKUP! HAND OVER ALL YOUR CASH!”… then gunshots and screams and sirens. Intrepid Reporter continues the interview, at one point apologizing for the noise that might make it hard to hear his in-depth thinking.
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