[theNJR]

In my small community we have a weekly paper that they deliver every Friday for free. I love it. It was recently bought out and the quality has gone down hill, but I still enjoy reading about what’s going on hyper locally.

I’m the minority however. Most of my neighbors never bother to bring it in off their driveway. The papers tend to sit until the next garbage day at which point it goes from driveway to garbage bin.

[steveBK123]

People are exceptionally weird about news consumption.

Some of my most politically active friends in NYC admit they don't read local news, when brining up specific things. It's not like we are a small town either, I'm talking about NYC news vs National News.

Everyone is too busy putting on their red/blue hats and voting for their national sports team, and not paying attention to what is happening in their local communities.. where their votes have more impact.

[mjburgess]

Then they're not interested in the news. They're interested in sports. Perhaps vanishingly few were ever that interested in the news itself.