Local News Is Dying. The Consequences Are Worse than You Think | The Walrus

It is cheaper to buy a dozen small papers and make them one big advertising rag than to pay hundreds of local residents to do local journalism.

Efficiency dictates that we have one big nationally syndicated periodical that just says "BUY MORE GOOD THING" with a picture of the good thing on the front and then that's it that's your journalism for the day.