Local news is no better because “local news” barely exists anymore. Sure, you may see the local journos in your area talking about community interests, etc, but anything outside of that most localized of content is being controlled by large parent companies that own all of the smaller news agencies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwA4k0E51Oo

This is from years ago, but I can’t imagine that in the last five years this centralization has suddenly dissolved.