>>Not anymore! Might want to read up on Sinclair Broadcast Group -- so much for our 'local news' media ... which is a real shame for all the reasons I'm sure you know.
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>Yes, some clinkers out there.
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>Here in NJ we have NJ Advance Media.
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>They do a good job of telling us the news with relatively little editorializing.

It's amazing how many transformations the verb "to edit" has undergone to get to this point.