It has occurred to me over the years that the coverage of the both the East Valley Tribune and New Times are generally better than the Arizona Republic.
The East Valley Tribune seems to cover as many stories as the Republic, but seems to cover them better. The New Times covers few topics, but with greater depth. I am basing my assertion on articles that fall within areas that I am knowledgeable.
Here is my question, why? OR why not?
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Even 10 years ago, the Rep was better than the Trib (though the New Times had the advantage in in-depth articles even then) but the Rep has gone "Gannett-operated McPaper" since.
The trend especially shows in the the Rep's local coverage. Often, they don't even show up for local events; they just rehash the Trib's coverage (calling their sources "wire service reports").
About the only area where the Rep is better is in coverage of the state's Phoenix-centered political power structure, but even there, a reader can stay just as well informed by reading a selected few blogs (Dem and Rep).
I have wondered about this seeming paradox for a while. Thanks for the response...
Even the coverage of the Phoenix political structure it is pretty shallow. They rarely cover city and county politics. I think the tribune's legislature coverage is more informative.
They seem to be moving towards one of those papers that just prints news releases as news...
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