@svavar@masto.svavar.com @futurebird@sauropods.win this depends on one's definition of politics (which is a word everyone has their own definition for), but sure. I think it's safe to say that any system that features powerful interests is one where you'll see the local journalism reflecting those interests. The way it was put to me once is that it's human nature for editors to consider who will be happy, and how happy, and who will be angry, and how angry, if the story goes to print. Because this is news media it is seen as an inherently political decision by others, but really it's just an extension of how most people gauge social considerations when deciding what they should do and how they should act. In this model it is the aggregate of such small banalities that constitute the force that you sum up as political.