I hate NYcentric media

I hate how New York centric the national media is. Nothing is news until it happens in NY, it seems. For example, 20,000 customers without power in NY is a main headline on cnn.com:
http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/07/22/ny.blackouts.ap/index.html

Meanwhile, in my hometown of St. Louis, hardly a widespot-in-the-road town by the way, more than 500,000 people have lost power after two bad-ass storms in two days. Any mention on any national news? I saw one story on yahoo.com, and that was it. Now maybe I've missed some of the national stories, but I know that if the same thing happened in NYC (and by that, I mean if a storm knocked out power to 500,000 people, let alone the same percentage of people) it would lead the national news for a week.

Just like how when a snowstorm makes its way across the country, dumping two feet of snow on everyone, it doesn't make a peep nationally until it hits NYC.

Rant over.

 

I can't speak to this particular rant, but I hate the mindset that nothing outside of NYC matters, unless maybe it happens in LA.

 

Actually, we don't care about anything outside of L.A., either. The difference is, we're three hours behind so everybody else is asleep when shit happens out here.

 

Things that happen in NY get more coverage because most major media is in NY. So the people handling the coverage are usually personally affected, plus they can pretty much walk outside and cover the story.

Way of the world.

 

Substitute "Toronto" for "NY" and you'll have an idea of what it's like for the 25 million Canadians who don't live in the CENTRE OF THE UNIVERSE.

 

You mean to tell me there was a power outage in St. Louis?

 

St. Where?

 

You mean there's more to Canada than the area around the QEW?

 

I thought NY never slept.

 

I'm guessing there hasn't been any national mention of the wildfire which has burned more than 6,000 acres in Northern Minnesota in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area, either.

http://www.twincities.com/mld/pioneerpress/15101692.htm