What has happened to local media?

After a lifetime of reading my local paper, I finally canceled it out of frustration in not seeing stories that I knew were taking place but not being reported. The Tribune should take a look at some 1930s editions of the San Luis Obispo Telegram. There was more news in less pages 75 years ago.

Is it just San Luis media? Why does Santa Maria's KCOY Channel 12 have a larger and more professional staff than San Luis Obispo's older KSBY Channel 6? And why does the young crew at KSBY not dig up original stories?

Some day I'll share copies of the tabloid section of the City Budget that ran in Telegram-Tribunes of 1959 and 1960. Would the city and county governments dare allow today's pie charts in print?

Has anyone ever seen a printed map of our recently gerrymandered 23rd Congressional District? I didn't think so. But if you Google "Ribbon of Shame" or "Fair Districts" you see how it almost disappears at high tide.