>>>Be thankful you are not limited to watching the news in Greensboro, NC. The channel 12 newscast is ridiculous, and I do not allow my daughter to watch it. However, the newscasters in Raleigh, NC are fairly well-spoken. It amazes me that only 2 hours away by car the language deteriorates to such an extent. (The local news can be rather funny though!)
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>>When I travel and watch local news elsewhere, I realize how lucky I am to be here in the big city (well, right next to the big city).
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>Philadelphia must be an aberration, then. TV news has become atrocious everywhere else.

I didn't read it that way. Rather as "our local news are not good, but when I travel and watch them elsewhere, I realize how much worse they are there".