Not at all the same caliber but one of the Dispatch editors left to go make The Clintonville Spotlight and other local neighborhood papers if you want some actually local news.

I think you raise a good point. Everything from local newspapers, local TV news, HOA and rental management, and even community sports programs are increasingly run by national organizations that have no connection to the local community and no interest in the community aside from extracting money.

Focusing on just the media side of things, you already see how easy it is to spread propaganda and it's only getting worse with SkyDance's merger with CBS. Not sure I have any answers here, but it's definitely a problem we need to solve sooner rather than later.