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rurallib

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6. A recent trend in rural areas is to have all the 'local' papers owned by one company

Mon Sep 17, 2018, 08:55 AM

Sep 2018

so what you see as 'typical' may well be the company line that is passed down from corporate. I live in a rural area and most of the small town papers are owned by a single larger city newspaper.

Similarly there is only one local radio station that is still independently owned. The other commercial stations in Iowa are owned mostly by the remnants of ClearChannel (now IHeartRadio I believe) or Cumulus. So listening to local radio - and hey NPR really sucks anymore too - is a no-go.

And TV? I don't believe any of Iowa's stations are locally owned anymore. Many Sinclair and Gray Broadcasting and one other I can't think of.

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