Long before anyone had heard of the Internet, early home computer users could read their morning newspapers online … sort of. Steve Newman’s 1981 story was broadcast on KRON San Francisco.

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We used to have two- the dispatch and the citizen journal. The dispatch is owned by one of the power families here – they own radio stations and one of the local tv stations. They drove the citizen journal out of business, so all of the news is slanted to present the news as they see fit. There is an alternative paper published once a week – whimsically called "The Other Paper". It, however, is published by the power families daughter, so it is biased also. It makes it hard to hear the real story sometimes – especally when it comes to politics. do you got more than 1 side of the story in your local news?

A small town near where I live has one weekly newspaper. The owner of the newspaper, along with several other business owners, decided to support an undesirable type of business that the State wanted to move into this town. The articles and editorials were slanted toward supporting the new business at first. When the issue was new, the editor/owner of the paper published a few letters that did not support the new business. Within a few months, the paper wouldn’t publish letters against the new business and they wouldn’t even take paid articles that were not supporting the papers opinion.

The first amendment to our constitution supports free speech. This is when I learned that you can exercise free speech as long as you own the newspaper. I’m sure this has gone on forever. It is a special problem where only one paper exists. If competitors take different sides of issues there is some chance the public will get a more balanced view on issues. Just look at how few people own the major media in this country–this is not a good sign.

I was just curious how all of the local channel news programs make the money to pay for their employees and other costs?

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This is the KTVU report on the Bart Police shooting that occurred on 1/1/09.

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I want to advertise my website, what’s the best way to get my local news to do a story?

Commit a crime.

Copyright NBC Local news adorable fluff on 2008 Olympic Gymnast Bridget Sloan

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local news of that city? I’ve watched Caspar, Wyoming evening news and like it very much. Thanks.

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On my home page, I’d like to be able to see local and state news. Is it possible?

Yahoo allows you to set your settings to different areas, just set your settings to your hometown.

Woman, her husband and four children were in a crash while driving back to the states on the 4th of July.

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Im doing a project and I don’t really know the difference between National and Local news. I mean in the country itself. My country is Belize. Could you give me some examples. They don’t have to be real.

A local story only affects people in a small area and only a few at that, an empty warehouse collapsing from old damage in San Diego, wouldn’t get much note even in San Diego. Same warehouse full of stuff and workmen collapses from a design flaw used in 500 other warehouses, national news, possibly even international.

More people are affected even if the other warehouses aren’t outside SanDiego, and this could impact the whole shipping and storage industry in Southern California.