Why would you want your "local news" dictated from thousands of miles away? Fairbanks had that for several years and it wasn't a good thing. Local news got short shrift and was extremely biased. If you were someone who was involved in the actual events covered, you knew what was missing from the articles. And, then the Snedden Group came back in and now the news covers most sides of the stories. That's because it is a LOCAL publisher who actually knows the community and what's going on here rather than someone thousands of miles away. I worked for FNDM when the out-of-state outfit owned it and we were frequently told not to include certain parts of local news ... the parts the publisher didn't agree with.