Over nearly eight years that I’ve been writing, local print news has declined, and its online versions have not been able to stem erosion in revenue and quality.
Although the quality’s poor – and it is – these local papers still offer a lingering value.
Now and again, they print the views of Whitewater’s town squires: paragraph after paragraph, all spilling out onto the page.
That’s invaluable, because if these papers did not publish how Whitewater’s few insiders saw themselves and their world, it would be hard for others to grasp how some of them actually think about things.