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Axios is expanding into local news coverage. This is their PR and wow the bullet point approach sometimes really just doesn't do it for me.

For a more involved take of the underlying topic, consider _News for the Rich, White, and Blue_ by Nikki Usher. http://cup.columbia.edu/book/news-for-the-rich-white-and-blu...

I don't agree with all of Usher's takeaways but there's a lot of good stuff in there. And as to the headline – yeah, sure, the "local news crisis" is partly causative in the polarization sure but lazy and biased coverage can compound all sorts of nasty dynamics.

While I'm here, Mark Lamont-Hill and Todd Brewster's _Seen and Unseen_ would be my pick for a recent media read. Lots of great history, recent and less so, as well as analysis: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Seen-and-Unseen/Marc-...

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If, like me, you read "Axios" as that js library, and PR as Pull Request, you too, my friend, need to take a break.