# kaal:claim:3782217-023

**Claim.** The most obvious harm from news consolidation is that national and international centralized corporations do not devote the same degree of focus to the interests of the local communities they serve, because love does not scale.

**Type.** failure  **Support.** argued

**Holds when.**

- consolidated national or international news corporations

**Source quote.**

> The most obvious problem with news consolidation is that national or interna- tional centralized corporations do not devote the same degree of focus to the inter- ests of the local communities they serve.

**From.** Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, *The Importance of History In Decentralization* (2021), News and education, page 9

**Cite as.** Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, The Importance of History In Decentralization (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782217

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**Failure mode.** local-coverage-collapse  (family: recentralization-drift)

**Topics.** institutional-design

**Keywords.** news-consolidation, local-news, scale-limits, editorial-freedom

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