re: Advocate reporting KATC (Lafayette) plans on ending live evening broadcast

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Just look at the what went on in newspapers a decade ago where formerly Gatehouse Media now Gannett was buying up newspapers for their properties and then sold off the assets from their printing presses to their buildings. Now they are managed by regions and may have only one or 2 reporters in the field covering an entire area for a paper. Gone are the local copy editors, sales staff, printers, etc. The physical paper is printed a day in advance and trucked in.

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Yes and this void has yet to be filled. Local newspapers usually had reporters doing their jobs to keep politicians somewhat honest (In Louisiana that's difficult at best). Now that Gannett owns all these papers it's verbatim garbage national stories and almost no local coverage. No local investigative reporting and no local sports, happenings, etc. Basically just some medical ads and obits. I don't know where this local watchdog role gets filled but it's missing right now in many of these local markets. Local TV stations follow suit and it will be up to small online pundits to do the job.