More than half of U.S. counties have no or limited access to local news (2023)

What's the population of all these US counties? I have to ask because a county (just like a US state) is an imperfect organizational unit, so there are counties with 500 people and counties with 2 million people. You're not going to find a competitive news market in the former.

A "local news source" in a market that small can mean a single person with an agenda running a blog, which is probably worse than Nextdoor.

A lot of people in the U.S. are not happy with the corporation that was running a lot of local news stations. This isn't the 1990s, we have broadband internet now. Everybody knows.

  https://rumble.com/v593bca-sinclairs-soldiers-in-trumps-war-on-media.html

We (Calumet) region rats have Paul Goddard to thank for keeping us on top of things. The local TV stations ignore us, for the most part, as Chicago is huge.

This one dude, working on it part time, seems to be the only decent news source in Northwest Indiana.

Half of the US also makes less than 40k seems like they have bigger problems than access to local news, they are on the basic level on Maslow's hierarchy of needs.

(2023)