Local Media may be having problems, but they still seem to have more pull than a paying customer - the Consumerist chronicles the year long saga of cables being left lying across driveways and gutters:

Ms. Franz tried showing the cables to some techs who came to repair her family's service over the summer. They didn't fix it. She also tried contacting Comcast's Twitter team - they at least called her back - but didn't fix the problem. Finally, it took a call from the Baltimore Sun before any Comcast trucks showed up.

There are times when you have to get someone in the PR department to notice before anything happens and - for good or ill - local media can get their attention, while normal people just can't. There are bloggers that have the same level of pull that the old media has, but not many. And most of them aren't paying attention to small scale stuff like this.

Here's where a nice matchup between local bloggers and local media could work though. It's unlikely that na entity like the Baltimore Sun is going to notice something like this story - but a local blogger might, and, if he/she is working with the Sun on an ad-hoc basis then boom - you get fairly complete local coverage, from top to bottom. The Sun can get the meetings with local powers (governments, etc) that the bloggers can't, while the bloggers can stream in leads that the Sun is simply not going to find.

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