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Even the alternative weekly newspapers, traditionally a bastion of progressive thought and analysis, have been bought by a monopoly franchise and made a predictable shift to the right in their coverage of local news.
People essentially like local news better than network news.
If you take the more general role of going to local stations around the country in Montana or South Carolina or wherever, and start in the local news, it’s a lot more difficult to get to the stories that you want to really cover.
In college, I was a weather anchor for the local news. I would ‘borrow’ my forecast from The Weather Channel.
Whether people care enough about local news to pay for it is, sadly, an entirely different question than whether our democracy requires a strong watchdog function at the local level to ensure safeguards against abuse, chicanery, and outright dishonesty.
When you make the transition from local news to something like Fox, you feel incredibly blessed because now you have fantastic producers at every level who are helping you do the things you used to do by yourself.
Working in local news makes you very self-sufficient, which is a good thing because you know how all the different jobs work. I’ve worked many of those jobs in the newsroom, from my first job answering the phones and working the prompter, to producing, to being a reporter who does all of those things.
We sort of read two or three big newspapers but we don’t get the flavor of the local events, the local news as much.
I am a big ‘Ellen’ fan. I have been one for quite a long time now. I used to do the local news talk shows with her in San Francisco, when we were both still kids.
One reason I left local news was that I was tired of the constant musical chairs among news directors.
Network reporters dont go to the field anymore. The local news has been gutted.
There was an interview with me when I was nine years old. They showed it on the local news and I said: ‘I want to win the Melbourne Cup.’ My friends used to tease me and make fun of what I said. So, yeah, it was pretty funny I did win it in the end.
Going from local news to a network operation is learning a whole new ballgame. The way you go about it and the stories you cover are so different. I feel at Fox I have a lot more autonomy about doing my work.
I wrote to the local news guy when I was 12 years old. I said, ‘What do I need to do to be you one day?’
