While spending the weekend in San Angelo celebrating by father's 94th birthday, scanning the local newspaper, The Standard Times, noticed that there was very little locally written content in the local section.
Of approximately 15 articles, only two were written by local paper staff. Three article were written by the retired Ag editor and the remainder were wire services like the Associated Press or sourced from other newspapers like the Austin Statesman, Texas Tribune, and the San Antonio Express-News.
This shows the sad state of affairs for local newspapers. The Standard Times is our course not owned locally, but, by some distant corporate entity.
I and others often lament that the Wilco Sun does not cover all the items of local interest that we think it should, but, it does an admirable job considering that Georgetown is one-half the size of San Angelo.
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