There are some journalists left in the U.S. Many work for McClatchy, a company that owns a string of local papers, and though not a wire service, a wire service, and runs a washington bureau among other things.
Here is an example of some real reporting:
Clinton backers worried by mood in Pa.'s Lehigh Valley
Interest in the Clinton-Obama race is high, from the comfortable middle-class enclave of Victorian homes on Easton's College Hill, to the working-class neighborhoods on Bethlehem's old industrial South Side, to the upscale developments near the interstates.
More than 6,000 new voters have registered in Lehigh County since last April, and nearly six times that many since the last presidential contest in 2004.
"For working-class people to be able to make a living, it's just getting harder and harder," Rodriguez said as he and his wife, Amelia, walked into the Sunrise Diner for lunch. "We should at least be comfortable, and it seems like we're living week by week."
He plans to vote for Obama, who campaigned in the valley last month and drew several thousand people for a speech at Muhlenberg.
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