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That's disappointing. I read the East Side Monthly for really local news and the Providence Phoenix but what about larger stories? We certainly can't rely on the "local news" TV stations for local news. All they cover is cooking and fires. And sometimes a cooking fire- tee hee hee.
I also read the East Side Monthly. There's are a couple of local blogs are are quite good, like GoLocalProv and RI Future.
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I think one danger is that a paper like the ProJo would be bought by a extremely politically slanted billionaire and used exclusively for propaganda purposes withe zero sense of objectivity.
Which is why I cancelled my subscription to The Wall Street Journal, once that fascist Murdoch bought it. Hope you're wrong.
I wonder if the NYT would consider becoming a regional paper. They could start having New England reporters and cover the New England region in various site specific editions. This is what the old ProJo used to do. It covered the state and parts of MA with regional editions.
They already own the Boston Globe. That would be a good vehicle for such an undertaking.
Boston Red Sox owner John Henry has purchased the Boston Globe from the New York Times Company. We'll have to see what he does with it. He'll HAVE to cover Pawtucket at least
They made a fatal mistake when they closed all the local bureaus and became a much thinner paper of AP stories - which they charged a lot more for. it's been a couple of decades since they've done any memorable investigative reporting, or much of anything in depth. All Belo cared about was cutting costs and glomming onto wire stories for content.
I always thought the move away from local news was nuts, because there are lots of places to get national news and sports, for free and in more depth. But only your local paper can tell you what your neighbor got arrested for last night and people pay to know that. Luckily some RI communities still have good local papers to let them know what their town council and school committee is up to. But there are those that don't, and it was a great loss. The internet really didn't step up to the challenge until recently with the Patch.
^ Belo is a Southern company. Belo is a right wing outfit; hardly a good fit with liberal Rhode Island. I have never trusted Southern people or their appendages and affiliates. I base my opinion on experience, not anecdote. Truly, once West of the East River, it's a barren landscape filled with duplicitous, boring, cultureless, unfashionable creatures. Save for Chicago, the only relevant, vibrant and dynamic part of America is, and always has been, the Northeast. Just saying, that's all.
The Metcalfs knew to sell when the gettin' was good.
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