Lol, get in line. San Jose has nearly twice Atlanta’s population and is the center of the most dynamic and politically consequential sector of the US economy over the past three decades and I doubt even most Californians could place it on a map.
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Eh, it just gets grouped into "the bay" or San Francisco, lol. The media largely ignores the west coast unless they want to claim Portland is burning again or look what those nerds in San Fran did this time.
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The thing is the media isn’t an immutable force of nature. To some extent, people outside New York just seem content to let others tell their stories (or not). There’s plenty of people with enough money in the Bay to keep a media operation going even without revenue. They just don’t.
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What’s more interesting to me is that that actually happened in Atlanta: CNN started there when cable was still relatively rare. More knowledgeable people than I can if that made a difference to their approach.
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I mean lots and lots of reporters trying to tell the west coast story without much traction. And the bay funds a bunch of media outlets they're just tech focused for the most part.
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