So I have read for some time and heard through conversation over the past the past two decades that the people of Clark County wanted some form of local news and community connection to find out more about themselves and the state that they lived in.
Yes, there is a new radio station that plays twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week of syndicated conversative talk radio that was shifted from sister stations and other local conservative stations to KKOV.
And there is a local daily that does a small percentage of news of what is going on and spends resources to local charities and business partnerships. And it has an executive staff that ticks off the local political blogosphere. Yet does not do much more than that?
You also have FVTV, which offers low cost production classes, studio time and gear for local productions for non-profit and local community events. It replays all of its content off the PEG access channel on Comcast channel 11. If you are not a cable subscriber, how are you able to access the production content?
The Vancouver Voice was a local weekly sheet & blotter that broke a bunch of local stories like the Storrow Case, The Value Motel Saga and other stories. It is now on the chopping block by its owners. I am not sure if its going to get picked up by a new publisher and financial backing due to the economy and the newsprints continuing escalating costs and declining readership as more and more people move online to get their hard news.
Some other local options Daily Insider, Clark County Live, Daily Couve (local satire), Vancouver Business Journal are smaller readership but also fill the gap for important constituencies here in our little neck of the woods.
There are many other online discussion forums, Facebook conversations and forums and many other ways we can communicate. But where do you think you can find a place where all of us stand as one as community speaking to the nation about WHO we are. I would love to see some thing like that happen.
