ABSTRACT
Writers who have studied the local or community press have tended to focus on its localism to provide a special framework for understanding its essential nature. Explanations of the local press and what it does are typically given in terms of the way relationships between local politics and business interact with the producers of the local paper, which results in a special type of journalistic output — the local newspaper. Macroscopic issues such as ownership of the media, technological change and ideological hegemony, which are the routine concerns of analysis of the mass media, are ignored.
