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Local focus helps keep partisanship in check
KAREN FRANCISCO | The Journal Gazette
University researchers released a report last month on an intriguing experiment: Can newspaper opinion pages reduce polarization by focusing on local news?
The researchers conclude it can: “Local newspapers can hold back the rising tide of political division in America by turning away from the partisan battles in Washington and focusing their opinion page on local issues,” according to the report s abstract. “When a local newspaper in California dropped national politics from its opinion page, the resulting space filled with local writers and issues. We use a preregistered analysis plan to show that after this quasi-experiment, politically engaged people did not feel as far apart from members of the opposing party, compared to those in a similar community whose newspaper did not change.”