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Spoiler alert: so does everyone else (see subscription numbers).

There are a few niche and highly specialized publications which I view (GQ, Men's Health, etc.) but for major news and in depth reporting I'm more likely to frequent WaPo, NYT, Vox, etc. There is a huge drop off in quality when viewing work from the mid-tier news providers.

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It's true, they're the only ones actually putting people on payroll to send them out to areas, do interviews and original investigation. Everybody else is just reaggreggating others from other news outlets, social media and public documents with their own analysis. But even the big mainstream companies suck at local reporting for their own towns. For things that are not national federal news you have to really get it from other people.

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