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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DCist had a sizable core audience that would gather in the comments, but then they eliminated comments and I'm going to guess those readers had zero reason to click on DCist anymore. It certainly wasn't for the journalism, which -- for all the hosannas it's getting from the terminally online right now -- was pretty amateurish.

I will say that local news is extremely important, but also that it's an extremely tough sell because its audience is capped by geography. And even in DC, which on its face should be a prime audience for local news, we have an *extremely* apathetic population when it comes to local matters, which is why we get the same mediocre politicians elected over and over again. Just look at voter turnout, which is laughably bad here. [/quote]

The problem with DC local news is that DC only has 700k residents. That isn't enough to support local news. MD and VA suburbs have far more, but they are lucky to get a fraction of the stories that DC proper does from most outlets [/quote]

Yes, exactly. It's a comparatively small population, and then when you take into account that probably 685,000 of that 700k probably would never click on a DCist link (or even know what it is), you start to see how impossible it becomes. [/quote]

Such a transplant perspective. There are 6 million people in the DC area. Thinking it is only the 700K in the borders that makes DC, DC is just navel gazing.[/quote]

Totally agree.  Major transplant energy.

The entire area used to follow DC politics when we had quality reporting and the reporting made the stories interesting with good interviews, follow ups, and actual journalism.   Even as recently as Michelle Rhee, Fairfax county residents did care what was going on in dc public schools!  And local news used to have the stringers to cover Fairfax courthouse and Montgomery at the same time.  The last time any local news was at Fairfax courthouse was for the Johnny Depp fiasco.[/quote]

As someone who has lived in DC proper (not in whatever cul-de-sac nightmare you clearly live in) for more than 30 years, I can tell you that this is an incredibly rose-colored retelling of local journalism. DC residents don't care about what happens in Fairfax and Montgomery counties because it does not affect their lives one bit, and vice versa. [/quote]

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