as @gravelinfluencer.bsky.socialwww.washingtonpost.com/media/2022/1...

A tiny paper broke the George Santos scandal but no one paid attention

The North Shore Leader was onto his lies months before he was elected in New York.

You'd think after Santos that the big papers would at least do Lexis Nexis searches or something, and get interested when a local source finds dirt. Pretty glaring back to back misses.

the existing literature on the effect of local news closures is small (research can take a while to catch up) but the findings, to my knowledge, go in the direction you'd expect - major local news sources contract, corruption expands. Usher and Kim-Leffingwell: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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