My comments to the Commissioners

Local news sucks. That’s no mystery.

Something that I think is not as well known is that of all the corporate-owned radio and television stations in our great city there is only one broadcast outlet from the Seattle media market with a full-time broadcast reporter in Olympia covering state government. That reporter being from one of our local NPR affiliates, KUOW. If that situation has changed for the better I doubt it has changed much.

NOW…maybe I’m just a simple graduate student in public affairs who is a self-professed government nerd, but I think the lack of government coverage is sad!

While I love my local NPR affiliate this just isn’t enough.

Where’s my government coverage on the evening news? Where’s my election coverage?

I blame lame media ownership and I wish that you continue to do all you can to keep media ownership diverse and unconcentrated.