Several years ago, Spokane had a really nasty ice storm. For almost two weeks the roads were covered with 2-9 inches of solid ice, which were of course carved into all sorts of impossible-to-traverse ruts and peaks by people trying to get home before they were snowed in at work. Power lines were down everywhere, roughly 400,000 people were without power for a week, I think the death toll was over 75. Local newspaper covered it well enough, but the Seattle newspapers? One had three inches on page four, the other decided it wasn't newsworthy until day four after the storm had passed. Then two months later, Seattle had a storm that left about 10,000 people without power for two days and only sent one person to the hospital. They covered the "tragedy" (the word used in the big front page headlines) for 8 days straight, making it sound like they had narrowly escaped the End Times© , and every now and then mentioning how this was totally different from that "slight" bit of "incliment weather" Spokane had earlier.

Yeah, even though I now live in Seattle, I still wouldn't consider getting the local papers. Ever.