>By "newspaper are the same" I meant that you have national newspaper that one can find everywhere.
Actually there are about 5. But 3 are really local metropolitan papers that happen to cover cities that are of interest to the rest of the country (New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Washington Post).
But to give you an idea of perspective, USA Today, which circulates nationally, only moves about 1.8 million copies a day (in a country of over 300 million people). Local papers are far more important to most people and circulate many more copies than any of the national papers touch.
>By "same political parties", I mean that you know which is rep and which is dem. Which one will support your current president and which won't.
At the local level this isn't always true. Local politics in the U.S. can be tremendously parochial and can often not map well to national platforms. For example, in my area the local Republicans have been more focused on raising tax revenues to fund mass transit expansion than the Democrats -- almost the exact opposite of the National parties' focus. And I'm not talking about State level. County and District politics are local...or in cities districts or wards. It can be maddening to try and explain local or national political behavior by using one to explain the other.
Actually there are about 5. But 3 are really local metropolitan papers that happen to cover cities that are of interest to the rest of the country (New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Washington Post).
But to give you an idea of perspective, USA Today, which circulates nationally, only moves about 1.8 million copies a day (in a country of over 300 million people). Local papers are far more important to most people and circulate many more copies than any of the national papers touch.
>By "same political parties", I mean that you know which is rep and which is dem. Which one will support your current president and which won't.
At the local level this isn't always true. Local politics in the U.S. can be tremendously parochial and can often not map well to national platforms. For example, in my area the local Republicans have been more focused on raising tax revenues to fund mass transit expansion than the Democrats -- almost the exact opposite of the National parties' focus. And I'm not talking about State level. County and District politics are local...or in cities districts or wards. It can be maddening to try and explain local or national political behavior by using one to explain the other.