I live near Auburn, California, a town of 20,000 people. After living here about five years, I started to subscribe to the Auburn Journal. It gives horrible coverage of national and international news, and really doesn't do very well at covering California.
But hey, it does a good job of telling the stories of the people in my area, and there are people I know in the pages of every issue.

I moved to the Sacramento area in 1980, and I'm still only fifty miles away. The McClatchy family established the Sacramento Bee in 1857. It's a good newspaper with balanced coverage, and I've subscribed since I arrived in the area. I certainly wouldn't be able to feed my need for news only on the Auburn newspaper, but the Bee and the Auburn Journal together make a pretty good diet. Heck, they're even delivered by the same person.

Even out here in the sticks, I could get daily delivery of the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. I really enjoy those two publications, but I don't have time to read the two newspapers I get already.

-Joe-