Does Local News Deserve More of Your Attention? Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #44 w/ Deion Broxton of Bison Meme Fame

Is news enter­tain­ment? To what extent has local news con­sump­tion decreased giv­en the alter­na­tives? Deion is an on-air reporter for NBC Mon­tana who was recent­ly memi­fied for flee­ing amus­ing­ly from some bison. He joins your hosts Mark Lin­sen­may­er, Eri­ca Spyres, and Bri­an Hirt to dis­cuss what we might be miss­ing out on, the uses and abus­es of news cov­er­age, real­i­ty vs. media por­tray­als, and the cur­rent sta­tus of “trust­ed news reporter” in our col­lec­tive con­scious­ness.

Here are a few rel­e­vant arti­cles to peruse:

• “Why Does Local News Mat­ter? Let’s Ask Our Audi­ence” by Melody Kramer
• “Local News is the ‘Biggest Cri­sis’ in Jour­nal­ism, but a Sus­tain­abil­i­ty Cam­paign is Under­way” by Mark Jacob
• “News­pa­per Decline and the Effect of Local Gov­ern­ment Cov­er­age” by Jay Jen­nings
• “Local News­pa­pers Will Stand the Test of Time — Here’s Why” by Adam Sig­nol­da
• “Why View­ers Trust Local Polit­i­cal Cov­er­age” by Hank Price
• “Indus­try Insight: Local Sports Cov­er­age Needs to Adapt to the Mod­ern News­room” by Matt DeRien­zo

Read that sto­ry about the mur­der that Deion refers to. Deion’s bison encounter has been cov­ered on the Today Show, Time, Huff­in­g­ton Post, etc. Fol­low him @DeionNBCMT.

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