July 7, 2010 -  The Norman Lear Center at the University of Southern California's Annenberg School for Communications and Journalism recently surveyed 490 hours of local news reports in the Los Angeles area and found what most people who watch local news probably already knew: It's dreadful. --- Radley Balko, Reason.com

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