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Anonymous wrote: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.

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

This very true.

Always thinking it wierd that they ignore suburban peoples to report on DC city council non stopping, but much less MoCo., PG, arlington, Fairfax coverage.

Anonymous wrote:lol, comparing WAMU to GGW is like comparing the great Sequoias to a Charlie Brown Christmas tree. Nice try to elevate GGW though

Anonymous wrote:WTOP is the only reasonable option now.

Gimme that Neil Auuuuuugensteeeein

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Anonymous wrote: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.

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

Anonymous wrote:"...I can't stand the reporters injecting their personal opinion/experience in the reports. I don't want to hear how the reporter feels about everything, I want to hear from the person being interviewed.

Also, and maybe this is the national news, but everyone greeting each other with "Hey, so and so..."

Hard to trust reporting from people saying "hey" and sharing their personal perspectives on everything.

Anonymous wrote:I rarely listen anymore, because I mainly listened to WAMU for local content and interesting program. I am not at all interested in hearing about national politics all day long.

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Uhhh, you know this thread started because WAMU axed the portion of their holdings that specifcally covered DC local news, right?

They killed DCist, dumbass.

Yes, I misspoke. WAMU did a great job covering local news until it decided to fire half of its newsroom. You = intelligent.

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Anonymous wrote:I have a game now where I turn the car radio to 88.5 and see how long it takes for race, gender, or trans issues to come up (always in an in-your-face, non-nuanced way). It's usually less than a minute. It's very clear that the agenda simply became DEI stuff all the time about 5 years ago. We used to give money, listen avidly, etc. It's not not listenable anymore. They obviously just ignored the disappearing audience and chose to ride this into the ground. It stinks because we desperately need a smart local news station.

I just drove 10 minutes to the grocery store with WAMU. Race came up in the second minute. I heard about how difficult it is for a metal band comprised of black females and also how underpaid black actresses are. I’m not doubting these challenges and those stories of course should be heard, but it seems to dominate what I hear whenever I listen. I want a broader set of topics and perspectives and I would think a mass audience (if that is what they are actually trying to appeal to) would want also.

Yeah dude. Based on the timestamp of your post you were listening to "It's Been a Minute," which is largely about black culture. So it's not surprising that you heard a a lot about black culture on a show about black culture.

So.... you're confirming what he said. Thank you.

Anonymous wrote:The ironic thing about this whole WAMU debacle is that it happened under the leadership of the new GM, Erika Pulley-Hayes, who replaced the forced out GM, JJ Yore, due the creepy Martin Di Caro scandal.

Di Caro was justly bounced out of WAMU, but the DCist staffers could not help but write an article seemingly once a week about the guy. well after he was fired. I remember seeing an article on DCist about him being hired by WTOP (I believe) heavily insinuating that he be dismissed. It was very stalkerish "reporting" and not professional at all.

Welp, kids. You got what you wanted. A creep bounced, a boss brushed away and representation stewardship. Look what that got ya.

Something something be careful what you wish for.....