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BuffScan's Buffalo media directory is now live. Perhaps more an editorial than a useful listing, it provides basic links to area media outlets, corporate and independent. Many of the independent links are discussed and highlighted regularly at this website.

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Buffalo Media Directory

The following directory is an effort to meet what BuffScan considers the obligation to and service of amplification, which is as much a part of BuffScan's driving philosophy as individual news collection and broadcasting.

Local Mainstream (American Pravda) Resources

This is a listing of local news media operating in the context of a strong corporate profit drive. Their value is in their national security approval to broadcast which in turn means that they have the resources and political pathways to give consumers a taste and perspective on local issues and matters that regular individuals may not. Although none of these perspectives will exactly rock anyone's boat (thoughtfulness = profit loss; potential loss of institutional control) they are still the first place from which you will get breaking news and professional presentations. Remember, in the days of the Soviet Union while the national state controlled newspaper Pravda was regarded by the world at large as fundamentally censored, for millions of Soviet citizens it was still concurrently the best news resource. Similarly, like it or not, these mainstream resources are valuable from a strictly utilitarian standpoint.

Buffalo Area News Spotter Efforts

Admittedly it's been a struggle to actually define this category. Many of the sites mentioned here are operating with borderline dynamics that align with the power and control dynamics of the MSM category above. Some of these sites want growth, profit, and power in the form of positive relationships and insider connections which I interpret as an invitation to inadvertantly re-shuffle singular power and control over information among a different set of people. However, they are at least independent and represent an evolving form that is still important to the BuffScan philosophy. My biggest actual problem with acknowledging them as "the solution" is that nearly all of them depend on the police scanner to exist, which makes them a fundamentally different form of "independent media" than that espoused by the philosophy of BuffScan. But, those misgivings aside, these are for the most part grassroots efforts operated by those with the passion for media collection and distribution, and with whom profit media is in literal competition.

Media at this level is relatable, unpredictable, refreshingly reckless and sometimes even dangerous. For all of its immaturity and dopamine chasing, it is the new model defining what "organized media" actually is.

Note that many of these sites utilize Facebook or X as their primary content delivery platforms. You may need to be logged in to these platform to view and engage them fully.

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