I finally made it to Idaho. The first thing I noticed is there are considerably fewer newspapers there than there were in Texas. Now to be fair there are fewer people and cities all around but it seems there are whole towns here that don't have any local news overage at all. That wasn't the case in the part of Texas where I was.
I also noticed, even the weekly paper which are typically hyper local, was mostly filler very little local interest content, not even a sports page, and not a single story with a byline. It was all community calendar type stuff. Very different from the newspaper I just left, which had a smaller circulation and total coverage area.