Why does it require a foreign publication to do such a respectful and touching article on a disappearing part of America?
There are stories like this and of this quality in the New York Times, regularly.
I understand that most here won’t read that paper because of the politics, but they are the only publication that I am aware of in America, that still does these types of stories.
If you are willing to look past their politics, which I am, you can still read interesting and in-depth articles there.
Rupert Murdoch, on the other hand, destroys every newspaper he touches, relegating them to stories about nothing of importance, such as which Kardashian has done which nonsensical thing on any given day.
The Wall Street Journal also remains a home for interesting news stories.
Probably for the same reason the foreign press is the most reliable source for info on various US government scandals and scams.
Well the local Urnalists are pretty busy right now - protecting the ØbaMessiah is a full time job.
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Believe it or not, I’ve recently started watching GMT on BBC America in the morning instead of Fox or CNN. Sure, the BBC has a POV as does Fox and CNN but I find there is a lot less fluff and a lot more in depth hard news coverage on GMT. Fox and Friends is pretty much unwatchable - it’s pretty much the “outrage of the day”, pounded and repeated over and over again, celebrity “news”, viral videos of puppies, kittens and babies, cooking, fashion and exercise segments and country music. Oh the hosts, they talk about the news but that’s pretty much all it is, talk and opinion. And I only watch CNN for breaking news coverage which is only marginally better than Fox.
The story is rather late to the party. This has been going on for years. Some little Jewish pockets are being kept alive by an influx of northerners.
Something similar has gone on in the midwest too. Flakey Senator Arlen Specter, for example, was born and raised in small-town Kansas.
Like the central role of the South in the Revolutionary War, Yankees like to revise history.