本地和国家新闻
看了台湾的黄哲斌写的这篇文章，我觉得很有意思。
When I joined China Times, I was a society news reporter in Tainan and I asked myself similar questions a countless number of times. The most common answer is: When something is relatively unimportant, has no national impact and is of no concern to people living outside, then it is local news. Only when the Taipei office thinks that it is important will it be elevated to national news, or even “key important news.”
他说本地新闻就是一些无关紧要的事情，例如你家的水沟塞住，你邻居的孩子跌到之类的。而国家新闻就是一些对全国都有利害关系的新闻，例如你家水沟塞住而导致全国水灾，或者邻居家小孩跌到是因为台湾竞选海报吓到这些小孩。
他说不只是在台湾，很多新闻虽然很重要，可是常常被扫进本地新闻区，然后慢慢就被人淡忘掉。可是在这个时代，因为有了blog，这些刻意被掩埋的讯息可以透过bloggers来让人们重视它们。
Link: EastSouthWestNorth: The Internet Is Subverting Local Government Power
