11/04/2002
Local news doesn't like politics. A downer. Nothing visual. Hard to report. It's so much easier to do car wrecks and murder scenes. And candidates love to run their attack ads on local news programs. The result: Stations air over four times as many political ads as campaign stories and devote almost twice as much time to advertising as to news.
And you wonder why voters are apathetic, turned off and ill-informed.
And you wonder why voters are apathetic, turned off and ill-informed.
