> Especially local news sites

You mean TV channels? The ones that all look the same? The ones run by Sinclair broadcasting which will soon be able to control 76% of them?

There seem to be very few true local companies left, the ones around pretend to be local when in fact they're identical to every other one owned by their national parent company.

And that company can afford to do it right. They're rich. They don't need Google to do it for them