Please don't post any comments about how you live in Montana, then.
In the meantime, I thought that it was not merely an interesting article about a particular newspaper in a particular place, but an interesting observation about how to lie with graphs and what interests newspapers really serve.
I don't get the downvotes on this one. The article headline makes assertions about the press generally, and then discusses only California anecdotes. There is absolutely nothing in the article to support anything about a "media fixation on 'transit is failing' stories." More accurate would have been "why do a few California news sources have some stories asserting that some local California transit systems are failing?"
